simonk999
Contributor
well, I knew those arguments were coming about the 2mm of trapped water.
I'm actually more interested in the answer to the first part of my previous posting, the question of whether or not the hollow wool fibers (or even to confirm that they're hollow) can get equalized to underwater pressure, and thus keep some actual non-waterlogged space for insulation. I suppose that even if they were not equalized, compression shouldn't result in 100% lost volume, much like the neoprene doesn't become completely compressed, so I would think that the wool must keep some air space and therefore insulate even underwater.
But getting back to the 2mm question, 1st, the suit in question is a semi-dry, so isn't expected to shift a lot of water around in the 1st place, and from other postings on other threads, it appears that indeed not that much water is actually absorbed by the lining.
Anyway, I don't own one, so no idea of practice vs theory.
-Simon
I'm actually more interested in the answer to the first part of my previous posting, the question of whether or not the hollow wool fibers (or even to confirm that they're hollow) can get equalized to underwater pressure, and thus keep some actual non-waterlogged space for insulation. I suppose that even if they were not equalized, compression shouldn't result in 100% lost volume, much like the neoprene doesn't become completely compressed, so I would think that the wool must keep some air space and therefore insulate even underwater.
But getting back to the 2mm question, 1st, the suit in question is a semi-dry, so isn't expected to shift a lot of water around in the 1st place, and from other postings on other threads, it appears that indeed not that much water is actually absorbed by the lining.
Anyway, I don't own one, so no idea of practice vs theory.
-Simon