A wetsuit is not only a suit but a great tool having ability to protect your body from excessive cold temperature while diving. You cannot ignore the importance of this suit. – PowerPoint PPT presentation
Title: Beginners Guide to Buy the Best Scuba Diving Suit
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Beginners Guide to Buy the Best Scuba Diving Suit
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You cannot go for enjoying water sport related activities like scuba diving without having a scuba diving suit. It keeps you safe and serves great protection. A wetsuit is not only a suit but a great tool having ability to protect your body from excessive cold temperature while diving. You cannot ignore the importance of this suit. This suit keeps doing its job by saving your energy.
Beginners Guide to Purchase the Right Scuba Diving Suit
During diving, you have to go deeper and water starts observing heat from your body in comparison to 25 times faster than air. And this is why adequate protection from cold is much needed to stay safe from hypothermia.
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This health issue generally occurs when your body comes in contact with water temperature below 32 degree Celsius. It is your scuba diving suit that keeps you safe and encourages you to enjoy scuba without confronting any issue. This wetsuit is available in many different varieties. You need to consider some features before buying the right one scuba diving suit.
1. Adequate Thickness This is the first thing on the list. Thickness works against cold water and that is why you need to go with the right suit having ideal thickness. The adequate thickness of wetsuit makes it able to withstand cold. According to the experts, a 3mm thick scuba suit is considered good for everyone. Here, the wetsuit thickness related guide according to the water temperature is mentioned below.
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For water temperature, 85 Degrees F (29 C) and above, cold-blooded divers should go for 2 mm to 1 mm shorty.
For water temperature in between 73 to 79 Degrees (22-25 C), a wetsuit having a thickness of 5 mm to 3mm is considered right.
For water temperature in between 66 to 72 Degrees (18-21 C), it is right to go with 7 mm to 5 mm full wetsuit.
2. Comfort This is another point to keep in mind. You need to make sure that you are having the right suit holds the ability to keep you comfortable while wearing. It needs to have a perfect fit in order to let you make movement and breathing easily. In the beginning, wearing a wetsuit makes you feel a bit weird. But later you will get comfortable with it.
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3. Construction What kind of stitch has been done also needs to consider while buying since it makes you know that how durable the scuba diving suit is going to. Glued stitch, over-lock stitch and inside ridge are the prominent types. A blind stitch is considered the strongest one since glue and stitching both are done to make it stronger enough and do not let water in while diving.
4. Cut, Length Style You may not believe but versatility and warmth are also affected by style. You need to keep things in mind.
Full body If you buy full body suit, it means your entire arms and legs will be covered as it goes by its name full body. Generally, a full body suit comes up with a long back or front zipper. The full body suit is available in various sizes having different thickness options.
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Shorty wetsuit This is pretty much the same according to its name. It means you will have short-sleeve and knee-length covers if you wear this wetsuit. It seems essential to mention that your torso is perfectly covered.
Two-piece wetsuit There is another one wetsuit on this list called two-piece wetsuit. It is widely popular because having double insulation forms. You are allowed to wear it according to your choice like you can use each piece separately.
5. Material Generally, scuba diving suit is made using neoprene material. It is also considered the perfect material. It is a synthetic rubber material which is widely known for its outstanding ability to maintain flexibility. It seems essential to mention that all neoprene materials are not created equal and they vary. If talking about the best type of wetsuits, gas blown is considered the right one. It is because that it comes up with thousands of nitrogen bubbles. It seems important to mention that neoprene is material and it is not built to last forever. How long it will go depends on how durable the construction is. Though the gas blown type is also known as the most durable scuba diving wetsuit.
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These all above-mentioned factors help you to go with right one choice. It is needed to follow this beginner guide so you would not hassle while enjoying.