Showing posts with label Suit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suit. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Dont Play Play leh.... this is serious 2nd Skin :P .... saved my ass from a lotta pain more then once...

Now I noticed most divers in Malaysia dont use wet suits.. main reason is its such a hassle to get in and out of one during a diving trip. If you are content to just hover and glide 5 feet above the corals and stay clear of wrecks plus caves then its okie.
But me? i am nutz. I see a wreck ? i will sure ask for permission from the dive master to penetrate for sure. I see a cave or a good swim through, for sure be the 1st diver to signal my buddy if he or she wants to tackle it. Call me nutz but you are missing alot of stuff if you stay clear of these extras while diving.
Some of my best experiences comes from going into the rusty hulks of some Malaysian shallower wrecks. But boy there is so much life on these and inside these wrecks. For 1 there is the huge fishes that tends to hide within these sunken vessels.

This picture above is my Wet Suit. Its standard 3 mm thick. Its made of some high tech material which i don’t care to know but what i know is its been good to me and my body. See that mark on my right thigh? if it wasn’t for my suit I had a gapping hole there now hehehe.
Besides the fact its offers pretty good protections from sharp surfaces of the hard corals or rusty wrecks, its also helps a lot when you are diving below 25 meters of water. The thing is the water tend to get cooler as you get deeper. My dives has never been uncomfortable and I tend to amid I get pretty reckless thinking this suit can handle most brushes with sharp or rough surfaces under the sea
But the rule of thumb is don’t under estimate your risks while down there. Having a suit is like an insurance… but does not mean you can taunt danger and dive against on coming traffic


Thats how you get in from the back hehe , yes yes you will feel like some super hero in his or her superhero costumes hehhe . Now standard recommended diving for Tropical waters is 3mm, I have friends who said 1 mm is good enough.. But i have come across nasty thermo climes that could have fresh off my ballz if it wasn’t for this suit.
Also when you are planning to buy your own please always consult your dive master or a qualified store assistance. You see now all cutting and sizes fits all. After you have bought it, please do test it out with all your equipment to find your buoyancy again. The minute bubbles within these suits are what keeps us warm underwater but it also makes us naturally more positive buoyant. That means you float more easily with these.
You are advise to seek out your buoyancy level again and note that the amount of weights you will need to adjust to to dive during a real dive in the sea.
Beware that new suits tend to be more positively buoyant, mine got more manageable after like 40 dives or so.
Well thats about it for dive suits , its a personal choice really. But its never too careful to be careful right?