scrubbo
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Okay, my fiance and I went scuba diving in the sea of cortez by San Carlos over New Years. (Ocean Sports in San Carlos ran the dive trip, they were awesome, I HIGHLY recommend them if you take a trip down there!)
She was chilly in her heavy wetsuit, and the dive operator let her borrow his wife's dry suit for the last day of diving. (The water wasn't that cold, only 61 degrees or so, but she gets chilly easily!) She LOVED how warm she was in it.
None of our LDS carry them in stock. Between the 3 dive shops, we have access to Mobby's (which doesn't appear to be selling suits right now), Andy's, Pinnacle (from diving concepts), OS systems, and DUI.
The suit she tried was a shell, and she liked it because of the warm fuzzy undies that she got to tromp around in AFTER the diving as well as during the diving. The thing she DIDN'T like was the inflatable feet. (She popped a fin off!) She saw a guy on the trip who had the nifty rock boots and thought that was the coolest thing evah.
So. I'm looking to get her a drysuit. And the stores don't have any drysuits for her to try on, but the one she had on down there was a ML Bares from many, many years ago. Fortunately she'll be pretty easy to fit, 5'8" 140 pounds, normal curves for a girl in the normal girl places. She SHOULD be able to work in a mens suit if worst comes to worst.
So... if I'm looking for a shell suit (trilam) with the little lace up boots for around 1200 bucks. The only DUI suit that fits the bill is their cheapy TLS^SE drysuit. None of the other ones have the lace up boots. If I get it from the LDS, they should be able to order in the ML and check it for sizing. But I suspect that the DUI cheapy suit costs about the same as a really good Whites or Bare suit. Has anybody tried out these suits? Would I be paying for the name on the DUI suit? Should I go to the work of trying to get a bares or whites/etc from a mail order place?
She was chilly in her heavy wetsuit, and the dive operator let her borrow his wife's dry suit for the last day of diving. (The water wasn't that cold, only 61 degrees or so, but she gets chilly easily!) She LOVED how warm she was in it.
None of our LDS carry them in stock. Between the 3 dive shops, we have access to Mobby's (which doesn't appear to be selling suits right now), Andy's, Pinnacle (from diving concepts), OS systems, and DUI.
The suit she tried was a shell, and she liked it because of the warm fuzzy undies that she got to tromp around in AFTER the diving as well as during the diving. The thing she DIDN'T like was the inflatable feet. (She popped a fin off!) She saw a guy on the trip who had the nifty rock boots and thought that was the coolest thing evah.
So. I'm looking to get her a drysuit. And the stores don't have any drysuits for her to try on, but the one she had on down there was a ML Bares from many, many years ago. Fortunately she'll be pretty easy to fit, 5'8" 140 pounds, normal curves for a girl in the normal girl places. She SHOULD be able to work in a mens suit if worst comes to worst.
So... if I'm looking for a shell suit (trilam) with the little lace up boots for around 1200 bucks. The only DUI suit that fits the bill is their cheapy TLS^SE drysuit. None of the other ones have the lace up boots. If I get it from the LDS, they should be able to order in the ML and check it for sizing. But I suspect that the DUI cheapy suit costs about the same as a really good Whites or Bare suit. Has anybody tried out these suits? Would I be paying for the name on the DUI suit? Should I go to the work of trying to get a bares or whites/etc from a mail order place?