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Old 21-03-08, 10:06 AM
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I'm more than happy with mine for keeping my hands warmer than wet gloves, i still have the standard liners in them at the moment and at the end of 100mins in the ndac last weekend my hands were cold but not that bad, last year doing the same dive in 5mm wet gloves my hands would of been painfully cold and lost the use of the old fingers

How tough the outer glove is questionable when wreck diving, but then spares from the various places on the web are cheap enough. if you hole them they look simple enough to change so as long as you carry a spare pair for those trips away you will be ok.

What i don't like about them is the bulky cuff, like string said they can swing around and bang in to things if your not careful.
putting your harness on is a bit more of a struggle but if you put one arm in and then use the harness break on the other arm its easy.
and the last gripe about them is when using stages with wet gloves on you can slip your arm in between your stage and body to get access to pockets etc with the cuffs this is more difficult. I would like to see a pair of rolocks close up to see if they are a bit smaller in the cuff to see if that would be an improvement on the ND ones ?

all in all the pro's outweigh the con's with your hand being much warmer than with the wet gloves and i think they will be warmer still with better quality liners.

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