Does your drysuit owe you money?

[Helen F H]

I have had a couple of suits in the past, the first one being a disaster and was cut up to prevent me from attempting to repair it! The first time it failed i worked out that it would have been cheaper to hire a suit for the dives it had done (at £20 a time). The second was cannibalised to make my third one which is utterly bombproof.

All that aside, someone once told me that you should get one dive for every pound your drysuit cost you. More dives than pounds and its a good suit, less dives and its a bit sad really.

So, what type of suit and are you into profit yet?

[puddlediver]

My original drysuit, a cheapo one from Protec some 12 years ago made the grade....and it was a pretty pink! My second one, - an Otter Skin was nicked before it had made the grade and my current one, an Otter Brittanic is no-where near it yet but will last for ever.

Ciao

Lyv

[nigelH]

Let me see...
New zip and new seals after about a hundred dives?

It's not even keeping up.

[Deep Baloo]

My Otter Brittanic has done me since 1999 and has done a few dives (read 000s) and has had 2 sets of wrist seals,1 neck seal and a pair of neoprene boots.
So if the rule is £1 per dive, Buy an Otter I am at least a couple of grand up

[Druid]

My ND Vortex has a couple of hundred dives. I've replaced 2 neckseals and a pair of wristseals, but it's now starting to leak through the seams on the left of the body.

So it owes me a couple of hundred pounds

[Woz]

Mine was £100 including undersuit, hose, hood, bag, gloves. I owe it money.

[alrhem]

i did around 40 dives in a suit I got for free....

to me thats a good suit...

pity the seals and zip needed replaced... so i bought a new one that will last forever!!!

[Juz]

Otter Skin MTM for £400 inc hood and undersuit in 2000.

2 zips, 2 sets of seals

Total cost ~ £750

I've done about 650 dives in the suit and would expect to do another 50 before any expense needed.

The suit has stood up to all kinds of diving and never been treated particularly well. It's probably coming up for a change, but certainly I do not think the suit owes me anything.

Juz

[Scuttler]

Hmmm......mine is only a year old......so I think it's a bit unfair to jusge it yet.

It's an O3 Ri2/100 MTM.

My old membrane suit I bought for £250 and sold for £195. So technically it only cost me £55 but it was a bit like triggers broom. I had it for seven years. In that time it had:

New Boots,
2 sets of New Seals,
New Zip.

I reckon I got my moneys worth out of it though

[jorawley]

otter skin, was about £500 - needed new wrist seals. Over 200 dives in it.....
so costs me about £2.50 a dive at the mo.
in terms of getting my money out of it, it did that after 50 dives as it was cheaper to use my own suit than hire one as helen says for £20.
hopefully another 100 or so left in it fingers crossed.......