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Wetsuits, Drysuits & Undersuits: Discuss Suit for Red Sea January in the Dive Kit and Equipment forums: Take your dry suit and smile smugly at your fellow divers when they have to climb into those freezing wet ...

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Old 03-11-04, 12:32 AM
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Take your dry suit and smile smugly at your fellow divers when they have to climb into those freezing wet suits for the second dive
What did you wear under your suit in Jan in the Red Sea? I have just spunked my cash on an MSF500 and was thinking about taking it to the red sea in January. The temperatures don't look that different from summer diving in the UK.

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I took a DS last time I was there in January. The pisstaking was remorseless on Day 1, Dive 1, until we got out. Then it was my turn...

I've never overheated in the water and even with the DS I got a bit chilly on a short hang off the Thistlegorm. I saw people in shorties blue with cold and shivering. For the sake of the extra baggage, why suffer? And you'll have to re-rig your regs...

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Reckon a 5mm suit will be fine, BUT I would take a hood - it's nice and small and will add a considerable amount of overall warmth.
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Talking Inner warmth
Drink lots of liquids.......


........and pee lots !!! (wetsuit only of course).
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DS gets my vote
I am off to Dahab at the end of this month and the advice from Poseidon Divers was take your DS if you can but a wetsuit would be OK. It will be colder when you go as well.
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Take dry suit exotherms Gloves hood, its bloody awful trying to put a damp cold semi dry back on :o

Enough said
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I was in Dahab in January. I used a dry suit and was very happy, never too hot. Well, you are hot before you enter the water, but this is a small price for the comfort in the end of a long dive I think.

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What did you wear under your suit in Jan in the Red Sea? I have just spunked my cash on an MSF500 and was thinking about taking it to the red sea in January. The temperatures don't look that different from summer diving in the UK.

Cheers, Anthony
I also have an MSF500

Fourth element base layour. Thats it

On short shalow dives (under an hour) I wore a T shirt and shorts

ATB

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From 20C down it is drysuit time for me.


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