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If you intend to wreck dive in the cold water  ocean . dry gloves which
flood your suit when ( not if) you puncture them are a serious handicap.
The cuff sealing rings prevent you from jamming your hands/ arms into
tight crevices to catch lobsters . (that is one of the reasons a serious
lobster er avoids wearing any gauges on their wrists ).neoprene helps to
protect your hands from puncture wounds from fish and lobster spines, and
bites, and steel and barnacles. a neoprene dry glove with a doughnut seal
onto your wrist seal( or mitt in really cold water) may get slightly damp
but offers the best compromise . If you get all wet from a failed dry
glove and require a lengthy decompression you may be in serious
trouble.Those few divers that persist in wearing  "dish washing gloves "
continuously puncture them almost every dive .water gets into the
underwear in spite of internal wrist seals because of the elastic
underwear  thumb loop left compromising the seal deliberately as an air
equalization conduit . The cuff seal type glove have  valid applications
in other types of diving, contaminated water , nuclear reactor , under
the ice in the antarctic , cold water photography etc.
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