Review: Whites Fusion Drysuit - say goodbye to cave cut

[fdog]

Having actually replaced a neck seal during a drysuit repair class by Whites, I can pass on from experience that replacing the neck seal using the heat activated adhesive is actually rather easy. And the resulting install is as secure as the original.


All the best, James

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

Adhesive Neck seal: $68
Adhesive Wrist Seal(pair): $68

 

[giantturtle]

The White's website says the suit is not compatible with dry glove rings, but some folks seem to be using them. Can anyone clarify please?

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

Yes, you can. I have had them installed on Fusions from the factory, and set some people up with the ring dry gloves. Some have put Viking drygloves on too.....

 

[Scott M]

I have the SI Tech gloves on my fusion and really like how easy they installed on the suit. They are also very easy to get on and off by yourself.

Regards

 

[giantturtle]

Thanks. I wonder why they say it is incompatible with dry glove rings on their site then?

DRIS - do you mean that you got Fusion suits factory installed with the permanent dry gloves?

Anyone got any pictures of the Fusion with dry gloves on?

Thanks.

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

Yup....I actually have one being returned with a mini p-valve and the dry gloves on it....should be back any day...customer didnt like the fit.....Its a L/XL if your looking for a great suit, I need to unload it......It has 3 dives on it....

The nice thing about the perm. dry gloves, you can take them off, but the rings are permantently attached. WIth that, if you bust a wrist seal, you can pull it out and field replace, then put back in....nice feature

I can take pics when I get that one back....

 

[TSandM]

I believe they mean the Fusion is not compatible with suit-mounted dry glove rings (which, if you think about it, makes sense, since you'd have to mount to the bilaminate material, and it's underneath the Lycra). It is completely compatible with seal-mounted dry glove rings, like the Viking bayonet system. That's what I use, and the Fusion is ideal for it, because the wrist seals on the suit are heavier duty that some other manufacturers use.

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

You can have permanently mounted drygloves installed on the fusion...not just rings or bayonets...That is how you can change the wrist seals out if you tear one. You just pull out the wrist seal, plug in a new one, and go back to diving.....I will get pics up for ya when I get it back

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I can't think of any reason the Fusion would not work with a set of rings that mount in the dry suit wrist seal, as long as the sleeve in the suit is large enough in diameter to let you turn the sleeve inside out and install the ring from the "inside" like you would in any other dry suit.