Dry gloves for big hands...suggestions, please!

[SDAnderson]

Does anyone know of any dry glove ring systems with a larger-than-normal ring diameter? I'm tired of wearing wet mitts, but my hands are too big to fit through all of the rings I've tried (SI-Tech & Nordic Blue, recently) and I don't want to permanently attach the gloves to my suit since I also dive in warm water with it.

I've heard that Viking rings theoretically come in a variety of sizes, but haven't been able to actually lay my hands on anything other than the normal diameter. Bob3, if you're about, any truth to this?

This is definitely a function before style thing - I don't care if they're pretty, so long as they work.

Steven

 

[AzAtty]

Have you tried Diving Concepts drygloves yet? The XL cuff ring has an inside diameter of about 3.5 inches. I have to tuck my thumb and squeeze my hand to avoid scraping my knuckles, though. Call Chris at COVCI and he could give you measurements.

 

[SDAnderson]

AzAtty once bubbled...
Have you tried Diving Concepts drygloves yet? The XL cuff ring has an inside diameter of about 3.5 inches. I have to tuck my thumb and squeeze my hand to avoid scraping my knuckles, though. Call Chris at COVCI and he could give you measurements.

Unfortunately, I need something a little bigger. But thanks.

Steven

 

[jonnythan]

Have you tried the gloves without the rings, that just use a latex seal to go over your wrist seal?

See the bottom of http://www.divingconcepts.com/dryglove.htm

 

[SDAnderson]

jonnythan once bubbled...
Have you tried the gloves without the rings, that just use a latex seal to go over your wrist seal?

See the bottom of http://www.divingconcepts.com/dryglove.htm

I've never tried them and they might work... The only problem is that I'm rough on gear and I also need the gloves to be either (a) cheap enough that I don't have to worry about the replacement costs, or; (b) durable enough that I don't have to worry about holing them.

Most of the non-ring removable gloves are relatively expensive. Since I'll be using these harder than most folks, the depth of my pockets becomes an important factor.

But thanks.

Steven

 

[jonnythan]

OMS also makes a drysuit gloves that's... wet. Apparently it doesn't have a latex seal, but you're supposed to let some warm water into them before the dive, and I'd assume there's some bare neoprene at the wrist to seal agains the drysuit seal.

http://www.omsdive.com/dryacces.html

Just a thought, best of luck.

 

[Bob3]

I'm checking on the ID of the Viking, those work nicely with the military surplus chemical gloves (about a buck a pair at some places).
If you're ROUGH on gloves, maybe you should look at these Kevlar jobbies: http://comdive.com/endurotech.htm
The 4mm have a "semi-dry" internal neoprene cuff, they're a favorite of the gold dredgers. Some dive shops won't carry them because they "last too long", at a factor of 10x-100x the life of a "normal" neoprene glove.

whoops!! tanx for the heads up, I fixed the link.

 

[jonnythan]

Bob3 once bubbled...
http://comdive.com/endurotech.com

http://comdive.com/endurotech.htm

(endurotech.com? That made me laugh, I've certainly done it before )

 

[SDAnderson]

Bob3 once bubbled...
I'm checking on the ID of the Viking, those work nicely with the military surplus chemical gloves (about a buck a pair at some places).
If you're ROUGH on gloves, maybe you should look at these Kevlar jobbies: http://comdive.com/endurotech.com
The 4mm have a "semi-dry" internal neoprene cuff, they're a favorite of the gold dredgers. Some dive shops won't carry them because they "last too long", at a factor of 10x-100x the life of a "normal" neoprene glove.

I've already tried the Kevlar gloves and I think that they came from you. You put a pair up on one of the DAN RSD auctions, didn't you? A recreational diver wouldn't be able to kill those things no matter how hard they tried. Hard to pierce (although a little easy to cut) but the largest size available ended up being too small for my hands so I gave them to a friend.

I'm only rough on gloves by recreational standards, just a little hammering and banging on the Straits to finish it up this summer. They won't let me play with the serious equipment down there...yet.

Thanks,

Steven

 

[JDostal]

I've got pretty big hands, and I use the type of glove that doesn't have an interlocking ring system. I've got a ring in my cuff, but then I just pull the glove over the ring and the elasticity of the rubber glove pressed against the wrist seal stretched around my cuff is what keeps me dry.

Might be something to look at...