How To Select Easy Inexpensive Dry Gloves for Scuba Divers 

Clever solution! I love the santi drysuits...

Thanks Jill. I’ll keep this in mind when I get to colder water. I like the KISS principal here. The fewest failure points. 👍🏻

Neat! Thanks for posting. Came on this when youtube served it up and clicked on it 'cos I'd heard of you. This is better advice than most. The bit about retaining your wrist seals is especially important, I reckon. Hoping to be helpful, here's what I do: I dive in the UK and gloveless where at all possible as I need my fingers for species ID and it makes running cameras easier. Unfortunately arthritic changes to my finger joints mean that I now need gloves in winter, so I use Kubis with nitrile marigold-style gloves and silk liners. The liners are left over from year-round commuting on a motorcycle where they were under-gloves and the nitriles (not black) are marketed for herbicide use. Silk is warm when wet and nitrile is flexible yet tougher than rubber. The combination has minimal bulk and allows pretty good dexterity, especially when you practice. Practice is important and it's often forgotten. I wear gloves at work (chainsaw operator and small plant mechanicking as well as marine ecology) so I'm used to them, but it took a while. Wear your dry gloves around the house (washing up anyone?). You'll feel like a proper nana at first, but it will pay off when on the boat. I tend to stay in the dry gloves all day when on a boat in winter, especially if it's a RIB, so my hands stay warm. I have a set of bigger gloves and Fourth Element liners for when it gets proper cold, but rarely have to use them as the thin gloves and a heated vest seem to be fine.

Hey Jill. I know this is little Of Topic. A few years ago I was looking for a pair of gloves for winter. Shoveling the snow. Bought a pair of Henderson 3mm Dive Gloves with Wrist straps. They actually work very well. Even cut down on the vibration from the Snow Blower. And my hands stay pretty dry. Just get a little sweaty. When I worked at Joint Base MDL, Soldiers used to buy that type for use on the range in Winter. Where I got the idea from.

Hi Jill I love these short video tips! I just wondered do you personally use this method then? How come you didn’t opt for one of the established ring based system like the Santi or the Kubi? Thx

I love simple solutions and this looks briliant. I use waterproof umtima on for my Ursuit but if I buy a Santi suit this will be worth trying;)

Good day Jill. Do you know, will cheap gloves system work with Bare Quick-Clamps?

Jill, enjoy your videos and info on the P2. Thank you! Is there an STL file available to 3d print that ring?

Hi Jill nice video!! I have a question for you, the rubber in your santi suit arm, is not standard right? Did you paste it to your suit upon your hard ring?

For your Fourth Element inner gloves, have the 3mm been adequate for you during your polar trips? Or do you use the bulkier 5mm version? I'm a Great Lakes diver who suffers from cold hands and feet and am hoping these will be the solution to keep my hands comfortable.

Hey Jill, excellent video. Question- when ordering the gloves, should I get one or even 2 sizes larger than usual (I take a large) as they are coming from Asia. Also, I might be wearing a thin pair underneath to keep warm. What is your opinion? Should I order large, XL, or XXL? Thanks.

Hi Jill, nice video. I'm looking for a small and easy to handle dry glove system but I don't have this ring on my Ursuit dry suit. Any ideas? Ralf

Hi Jill! In how cold waters do the 4th element glove liners 🧤 keep your hands warm? they look very handy.😉 I dont really have the economy for electric heating. I normally can do 100mins in 6C water and maybe 40mins in 0C saltwater....with wool fingergloves under.. But then Im like an ice cube after that. what are they like compared to wool gloves?

And I will try this next time with my viking rings. So simple!

Jill, how wide is the ring? A friend is 3D printing me a set of rings. We tried 2 inches and it seems a bit too wide. Thanks!

Would this technique work for oval rings? Or would the shape put unequal forces on the glove and cause the seal to not be watertight?

Are these gloves huge on you? I had a pair similar and they had a lot of space beyond my fingers and were very hard to use.

Is this the Viking Dry Glove System? 🤔

Hi Jill, By chance do you know or can you ask if Glenn may have shared his 3D printing file on Thingiverse for these loading ring? Understood they are customer sized for the Santi drysuit cuff. Fortunately all the Santi cuffs are the same size to accommodate the Santi Smart Glove system. However I’m with you in saving some money as most times I just dive thick wet gloves. If Glenn has not shared his 3D file maybe you can provide some simple measurements so I can create my own. I would like to know what the inside diameter and the width of your custom loading rings? Thank so much in advance! Cheers, #SeattleRingHunter