semi-dry?

[dogwatch]

Is Pinnacle Polar a good / best choice or is there something else out there to consider?

Thanks

[BillBowden]

Semi-dry = wet

I find I am MUCH warmer in a dry suit with a slight leak, than in any kind of wetsuit. Just my experience.

[Angie Reim]

Yeah. My Atlan neoprene dry-suit (which leaks) is still warmer than my semi-dry.

[Rich]

Is Pinnacle Polar a good / best choice or is there something else out there to consider?

Thanks

I use a Sea Elite (Atlan) 7/5 semi dry (@$200) on a daily basis and I'm toasty for about a year and a half.....'course I take mine deep also which probably reduces it's shelf life

Safe diving,

Rich

[Signal 20]

if you dont have the money for a drysuit or just dont like diving dry the Sea Elite 7/5 is a great suit. very tough and durable and I think its very warm.

[Genesis]

Never seen anyone complain about the Polar not being warm.

However, you can always make a drysuit warmer with more underwear. What you got is what you got with a semi-dry.....

[Dwain]

I wear a Pinnacle Polar Semi-dry... I'm warm for my deco.

[Cindy]

I use a scuba pro semi dry for caving and sump diving. I can get by because the water is shallow and even at 58 degrees I can stand it. I can do that for about 30 min. of deco but if I have to deco for any longer than that I have to go to a dry suit. The chance of DCS is just too high if you are shivering and trying to deco for more time than that. Also I have found that the fine tuning for really carefull bouyancy control is better if I have a dry suit. Right now for really small stuff when not sump diving I use a harness with my dry suit is my primary source of inflation. It depends on what I am trying to get done in a cave as too what kind of suit I use. Cindy Butler

[Jason B.]

Do you guys just use a lift bag for redundant buoyancy or double bladders, or what? I thought wetsuits and big steel doubles was a no no.
New to diving doubles (3 dives in them) so be easy on me.

Jason

[Cindy]

Hey Jason, I have had this conversation before and I don't mind. Just a quick story, Duncan Price and I were diving and came up at a sink in sink in Peacock. Both of us were in dry suits and diving side mount HP 100s with no wings. We were accosted (I mean verbelly attacked) by a cave diving instructor in a wet suit with wings for his bouyancy and all three of his students geared the same way. He was very angry at our lack of two sources of inflation. Duncan calmly pointed out that not only did he have only one source of inflation but he was teaching that to his students! Again it depends on the dive and the situation, if I dive someplace that is deep or use stages then of course I use wings. With HP 100s I am neutrally bouyant witih a dry suit. I do have doubles also for scootering and use wings and a dry suit, for really deep scary stuff I use both and add a lift bag. Thankfully I have been diving long enough now and have enough experience that I can dive a cave and tailor my gear for that dive. Duncan and I were near a sink and using that configuration to practive swapping our tanks for an emergency. It worked fine by the way. Being female it costs me a fortune to dive. Not only do I have a dry suit for sump diving and travel I also have wet suits that fit me for fat and skinny days. I doubt you will be doing much sump diving for a bit. I would try to get enough money for a dry suit. You will be warmer and safer. Cindy Butler