9mm semi dry suit for diving
Q: I recently fell in love with scuba diving. I am looking to buy a seamless full suit, 7mm, with integrated hood. I get cold a lot, so I need a warm suit. Are there any suits you recommend? I heard that they are coming out with 7mm suits that are compressed to 4 or so mm. Have you heard anything about these?
A: There are lots of 7mm wetsuits made for diving, some are even thicker that 7mm – for instance 8/7/6/5mm Men’s XCEL POLAR HYDROFLEX SCUBA Fullsuit, 8/7mm Men’s Henderson THERMOPRENE Semi-Dry Hooded Wetsuit or even 9/7/6mm Men’s XCEL Polar ThermoFlex TDC SCUBA Hooded Wetsuit (you can find them in the first wetsuit shop on the list here). This is if you want a wet or lets say semi-dry suit.
Compressed and/or chrushed neoprene is used when making dry suits. Dry suits are made from either a membrane or from neoprene. Neoprene material contains air bubbles that give the neoprene its insulation capabilities and also make you more buoyant. But once you dive a bit deeper the water pressure will compress then neoprene and shrink the bubbles. By compressing and/or crushing neoprene in the factory they try to simulate this so that neoprene properties don’t change much while you are diving.
Hope this helps!
Any equivalent for women?
There are some, I suggest you check the stores listed here: https://www.wetsuitmegastore.com/buy-wetsuits