Wet or Sweat

[GLOC]

I have done 3 days of diving with my laminate drysuit and each time I have got out the inside of the suit is wet and the outside of the Weazel is damp, all over not just in anyone place.

Now, I think it is sweat condensing on the inside of the suit as it doesn't taste too salty (!) and I don't have wet patches (all right you lot!) anywhere. Am I being paranoid or does sweat condense on the inside as I think it is doing?

Thanks

[Juz]

Also if the suit doesn't completely dry inside, you will get this effect.

Juz

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by GLOC

I have done 3 days of diving with my laminate drysuit and each time I have got out the inside of the suit is wet and the outside of the Weazel is damp, all over not just in anyone place.

Now, I think it is sweat condensing on the inside of the suit as it doesn't taste too salty (!) and I don't have wet patches (all right you lot!) anywhere. Am I being paranoid or does sweat condense on the inside as I think it is doing?

I do a lot of zipping myself in a suit, setting out to sea, discovering the weather forcast was optomistic, revisiting my breakfast, curling up and feeling sorry for myself, getting back, unziping the suit and it's all wet.

QED

[GLOC]

Must be a sweaty b**tard then.....me not you lot! I would hate to see what I would look like in one of those seaweed wraps

[Wacker]

If all over it is definatly sweat.

if localized it is almost definatly a leak.

[LisaR]

That'll be the baby oil warming up

[dry suit diver]

Its sweat, I did the acid test this afternoon by sitting in it and the undersuit in the garden, I got some strange looks from the new neighbours, and lo and behold sopping wet outside of the undersuit nice and dry inside which now proves the point on how effective the thinsulate is at wicking moisture away from the skin.

no more cotton under the undersuit for me.

[Allan Carr]

I always find that I get damp knees even when the rest of me stays dry. This occurs even before I get into the water so it has to be condensation, not a leak. I've never managed to work out why this occurs. I've heard of sweaty feet but sweaty kness?