Two things I have found out about gloves.

[Digger]

Originally Posted by Woz

I've got a shiny pair of ND drygloves to trot round the SOM. Should be fun. With some backup 5mm Poseidons but the index finger is knackered on one after too much nose picking.

Or there is always the Marigold option. I'm chucking a pair in the bag. Should be interesting.

On no account buy the super stretchy 5mm Cressi / ND gloves. They're utter crap. Wear faster than an angle grinder through soft butter and water flushes through them if you do anything more energetic than, say, a slow Nazi salute.

Drygloves? Gay. The mitts are the answer. Definitely. More the answer than garlic bread.

They do have the advantage that when a crab or lobster grabs your finger you can slide it out under the glove. Not so with the neo. It hurts. Quite a bit.

Digs.

[BigHairyAl]

Wear a pair of bum-exam latex surgical glove thingies underneath any normal neoprene gloves, and bobs your uncle, warm dive.

Helps if you can tape the latex gloves to your wrist seals.

[Marky Mark]

I was wearing the aforementioned 5mm Super Stretchy ND on my first cold hand Mark dive. I had no problem with them last time, same conditions, weird. I did think about trying the ND Kevlar Dry Gloves which I bought a while back. Still it'll be getting warm soon.

MyM

[String]

I've tried 5mm, 3 finger mitts, latex seal drygloves and now ring based drygloves.

Traditionally i had to thumb dives as my hands were painfully cold after 20 mins or so (with 5mm gloves).

3 finger mitts were great at the time, got 35 mins or so before the same but i lost both of them someone in milford haven if anyone finds a nice set of O3 mitts...

Tried latex seal drygloves and worse than the above 2 - could never get the second one to seal properly, nearly always had one leaking and so on.

The last 2-3 months ive been using ND dry gloves but with the thin cold supplied liner changed for some 40gsm thinsulate gloves from local outdoors shop and although not toasty its the first time i can comfortably complete 1hr dives in winter without being in pain so these run out easy winner for me.

[ratcliffe]

I've just bought some of those Proglove 3's so I hope they are as good as you say as my fingers are my worst concern these days.


Mmmmm Xerotherm Arctics

[ding]

Endurotech are the best fingered gloves I have used in twenty odd years but I hear that posidon mits are good as well.

[Silty Bottom]

Originally Posted by Woz

On no account buy the super stretchy 5mm Cressi / ND gloves. They're utter crap. Wear faster than an angle grinder through soft butter and water flushes through them if you do anything more energetic than, say, a slow Nazi salute.

Have to disagree with you there Woz. Maybe I have odd shaped hands or don't pick my nose as energetically as you but I love my ND super stretch gloves, don't think I'll ever go back to "normal" gloves. So if you have any you haven't used too much for clearing your nostrils give me a shout

[Chris W]

Used my ProGlove 3's yesterday in Capers ..........

Great GLoves and my hands were much warmer ...... but I can't stick "twos" up at my buddy now ..........

I suppose its worth the trade off for warm hands

[Finless]

Sorry - hadn't realised I was in the proper diving bit. Just ignore me.

[edit]Newly converted DIR types can be a good source of cheap 3 finger mitts.

[ratcliffe]

Did someone say something ?


By the way I am getting on very nicely with my Proglove 3's so a definite thumbs up for them.