Tips For Your Drysuit Course
Cozy, cozy, cozy… that’s the first feeling you’ll have when slipping beneath some less than warm waves in your first drysuit. A warmer diver makes for a better diver, and with an extended season and range of dive sites you can accomplish, drysuit training is a must for the adventurous souls looking to expand their dive limits. Here’s a couple quick tips for making sure you have the best training experience possible.
Manage that hair! Admittedly, the worst part of donning a drysuit is the neck seal. Not only do you feel you’re being born again, but this time you have hair! If you have very long hair that snags, a common trick is to use pantyhose or a very thin buff to get that head through. But, if you have a stretchy enough neck seal you an sometimes pull it tight enough to get through with most of your hair.
What’s on your feet? If you have integrated boots, you’re in luck! Extra warmth will come to your toes, but you need to cognizant of getting air trapped in your feet. Don’t worry, it’s covered in your class. Have no integrated boots or socks? No problem! Just be sure to layer heavy neoprene to keep those toes warm. You also have the added safety advantage of being able to dump from your ankles, but you hopefully you train enough to never need to!
Wax that zipper! One of the most common breaks in a drysuit isn’t the fabric, but the seal with the zipper. There’s a reason those things are so expensive, they’re completely watertight! Be sure to buy some proper drysuit zipper wax and work the zipper back and forth several times throughout the year. Apply liberally and often to keep it functioning right.
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