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#5050
Back up wetsuit for drysuit trip?
diverray - 5/23/2013 10:00 PM
Category: Equipment
Replies: 5

I’m going on a three day liveaboard trip, using my dry suit. I was wondering about the advisability of taking a wetsuit for backup in case the dry suit leaks, seals fail, etc, in some unfixable way? Does anyone else consider this when diving out of reach of a dive shop?
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LatitudeAdjustment - 5/24/2013 5:12 AM
Saw it happen once on a liveaboard, woman blew a neck seal, glue would take 24 hours to set even hanging in the engine room but the boat did have a 7 mil she could borrow. The good news was during the surface intervale a humpback and calf showed up escorted by dolphins and buzzed by seals. Snorkeling with them in a wetsuit is much easier than it would have been in the dry suite (dry suit, gloves and hood = suite)
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WarmWaterTurner - 5/24/2013 6:30 AM
Absolutely. When I am using my dry - I almost always bring my full 3mm with a hooded corewarmer. Rather be diving in a wetsuit under those circumstances then watching from the deck!
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Eric_R - 5/24/2013 7:11 AM
Save a dive! Especially when the word trip is involved.
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diverray - 5/24/2013 6:30 PM
Thanks, folks, for confirming what I thought was probably the right thing to do.