Caterina.D

Caterina D reef
Type:
artificial reef, trawler
Built:
1973 - Bishop Shipbuilding, Aransas Pass TX USA as America 200
Specs:
( 70 ft ) 137 gross tons
Sponsor:
Manasquan River Marlin & Tuna Club
Sunk:
Tuesday April 24, 2007 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°01.650' -73°59.747'
Depth:
80 ft
Caterina D reef
Caterina D reef

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The heavyweight cold-water wetsuit is probably responsible for the premature demise of more nascent diving careers than any other factor. These awful things are simply uncomfortable and ineffective. For all the stiffness, squeezing, bulk, and extra weight of 5-7mm wetsuit, in the end, it really doesn't keep you warm, and most cold-water wetsuit divers are pretty miserable creatures. I have seen the constriction and topside overheating of one of these things make its poor wearer sick on dry land, never mind on a boat out at sea.

manual

For an excellent guide to drysuit use, pick up a copy of DUI's drysuit owner's manual, available at most dealers for under $10.

Or just download it.

The argument that heavy cold-water wetsuits are easier to use is patently false. A wetsuit has a mind of its own and will make wide depth-dependant swings in buoyancy over which the wearer has no control. How is that better than a drysuit, which the user can consciously trim for constant buoyancy during the descent, and which semi-automatically trims itself during ascent?

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