Dry suit failure

[LMN]

Thanks for your answers. So it seems that besides getting cold and having a hard time getting out of the water, a flooded suit doesn’t really affect the diving portion, assuming your wing has enough lift to adjust buoyancy. Good to know, I thought it would be quite an event, up there with gas loss or scooter failure.

[DMoore]

Thanks for your answers. So it seems that besides getting cold and having a hard time getting out of the water, a flooded suit doesn’t really affect the diving portion, assuming your wing has enough lift to adjust buoyancy. Good to know, I thought it would be quite an event, up there with gas loss or scooter failure.

Depending on the failure and how much water you take on - speaking specifically to a shell suit - it can throw your trim out of whack. I had a 2 inch rip in the leg of my suit when 2,000'ish back in a Texas cave while scootering. I flooded pretty quickly and therefore my legs were definitely negative on exit. That made scootering a bit inefficient to say the least.