Diving brings a new experience to the divers on each time.
Not only the fun and enjoyment but also diving gives you some kind of mental
and physical relaxation from stress. Since diving involves many unexpected
situations under water, people should ensure their safety with diving equipment
like dive mask, scuba, fins, snorkel, gloves, diving computers and so on.
Diving suits are the essential one to face the exposure to various elements
such as the pressure of water and wind, animals, etc. Nowadays, dive suits are
designed with various advanced features depends on the diving environment.
Diving Suits
While purchasing diving apparel, people should check the
quality of the material, size, cost and etc. The fitness of dive suit is one of
the important things to be taken into consideration. Usually, dive suit will
help the divers to keep them warm under the water surface and give buoyancy to
freely move in the water. A perfect dive suit should have good seals at neck,
wrinkles and ankle, which prevent the excess flow of water into the suit. It
also acts as a safeguard from cold, abrasive, Sharpe edged objects and so
on. Usually, dive suit is made up of
heavy duty plastic coated fiber material known as neoprene. The dive suit mainly classified into four
types such as wet suits, dry suits, semi-dry suits and dive skins.
Wetsuits – It is designed to get higher
thermal protection while diving under the temperature ranging from 10 to 25°C.
Full sleeve and half sleeve types are available. The full sleeve suits are
highly preferable by divers for more protection.
Dry suits – Dry suits are suitable while
diving at extremely low temperature. Dry suits can be split up into two type
neoprene and membrane. The neoprene materials are thicker in nature, but the
membrane is very thin that needs additional protection with thermal suits. In
order to use dry suits in a proper manner, divers should go under some professional
training.
Semi-dry
Suits – It is suitable to use between 10 to 20 °C temperature levels. The
semi-dry suits are thicker than wetsuits with a better seal that prevents from
the exposure of high water pressure.
Dive Skins
– This is the highly thinner suit than all other types of diving apparel. It is
designed to wear in the warm water where the temperature above 25 °C and
provides little thermal protection.
