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Old 23-03-08, 11:40 PM
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Good reply, a lot depends on your locality, if I was in Dorset then I wouldn't be thinking of nipping up to Leeds to be measured, likewise, I wouldn't drive 4 hours to O3 unless I was certain I wanted one of their suits.

When I bought my first drysuit I had no idea what I was doing. I went to a large Derby based retailer and was sold one that was the wrong size, was medium large tall, I'm 5 foot nine. I used it for a few months, dry dives, but flexibility was shite. It's delight now to be able to remove my fins with ease in the water and reach where I want to reach. When you don't know what a well fitting suit should feel like it's pretty hard to know if it fits! I thought it was normal to wrestle for 5 minutes to get out of each wrist seal. Thank goodness I picked made to measure.
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