Beginners guide to choosing a Wet Suit or Dry Suit.
What you need to know when choosing a Wet Suit or Dry Suit. In this episode Andy discusses what to look for in a Wet Suit or Dry Suit. The materials they're made from and ways in which they keep you warmer in cold water Scuba Diving. How to choose a Wet Suit or Dry Suit guide for the new or inexperienced Diver.
Differences in Diving a Wet Suit or a Dry Suit.
🔴 Warmth - Wet suits do this using a layer of neoprene and a thin layer of water trapped between that and the skin. Dry suits use air and a combination of undergarments. No water to take heat away if a seal is lost and allowed to flush through the suit. With drysuits you can add layers of insulation to slow the loss of body heat.
🔴 Buoyancy - Wetsuits compress with depth and lose some of their inherent buoyancy. Dry suits allow the diver to add air and compensate for the increased pressure at depth. As the wetsuit compresses, it gets thinner and loses insulating capacity. The dry suit does not.
🔴 Weighting - With a dry suit, the amount of buoyancy the suit offers stays more or less constant since the diver has the means to adjust for the increased/decreased pressure. A wetsuit loses buoyancy at depth, a diver can become over weighted due to suit compression.
🔴 Varying conditions - Many divers use their dry suit year round, from warm water locations to under the ice in winter. A wetsuit does not offer that flexibility.
🔴 Purchase cost - With the introduction of new materials and manufacturing competition, a quality entry level dry suit can be had for roughly the same price as a higher end wetsuit. One dry suit will work in numerous environments.
🔴 Cost of ownership - Once a diver buys a wetsuit there is very little maintenance other than proper rinsing. Dry suits require seals to be replaced, leaks attended to, boots or socks replaced, and maybe even the zipper. These costs may be offset by the life of the suit.
✅ Temperature ranges for each suit:
3mm suits* are suitable 19-26 deg Celcius
5mm suits* are suitable 13-21 deg Celcius
6-7mm suits* are suitable 8-16 deg Celcius
Anything colder you are looking at dry suits and under layers
*may require suitable boots, gloves and hood
✅ Suits featured in this episode:
O'Neil EPIC 3/2MM Full Wetsuit Womens
www.oneill.com/gb/en/epic-3-2...
RipCurl Flashbomb 5/3 Chest Zip Wetsuit
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Fourth Element Proteus II 5mm Wetsuit
fourthelement.com/proteus2/#1...
Northern Diver 5.5/6.5mm Delta Flex Semi-Tech Wetsuit
www.ndiver.com/delta-flex-sem...
Northern Diver Divemaster Sport Drysuit
www.ndiver.com/divemaster-spo...
Predator Evolution Drysuit
predator-drysuits.uk/the-evol...
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