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--=====================_23139022==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:19 PM 1/22/99 +0100, you wrote: > > I have both a TLS and a CF suit. The TLS is made in a much lighter material > and therefore is more comfortable. It does dry very quickly to. The drawback > is that you can puncture the suit quite easily. With the CF suit you trade > comfort for durability. Which suit is best really depends on what kind of > diving you do. I've pretty much had the same experience as Ingemar. My Sig Other, Maggie, aquired quite a few holes wreck diving with her TLS last year; but, damn, those suits are so nice, light and comfortable. I really think they swin faster than my CF, as well. And they're almost always dry in under an hour (except for the CF material bootie part). On the other hand, my CF200 takes forever to dry and is pretty heavy, but I've got 300+ dives on it and I've yet to get a puncture in it. And I spend alot of time wrenching lobsters out from underneath rusted hull plates (well, attempting to wrench 'em out...). As far as inherent bouyancy in CF suits, I've really never experienced any noticeable difference between 'em and the TLS suits, but I haven't dove the TLS' very much. In any case, I don't need any lead in salt water with my CF,Hog rigged SS backplate, 65Lb wings, dbl PST95's, cannister light, 400G Thinsulate jumpsuit and expedition weight poly pro underlayer, even at 400 psi on a hang. Maggie just ordered a custom CF for wrecks up here, and as soon as I can afford one, I'm going to order a custom TLS for a teaching in and using in situations where I won't be spending time kneeling on rusty metal. The shop I work at sells a couple of other brands of trilaminates (or used too). While the material looks nice and tough, the fit leaves a lot to be desired. I've NEVER seen a suit fit -nearly- as good as a custom, self-donning DUI suit. Tony Thomas, Dive Shop Monkee, Stingray Divers http://www.stingraydivers.com --=====================_23139022==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> At 02:19 PM 1/22/99 +0100, you wrote: <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>I have both a TLS and a CF suit. The TLS is made in a much lighter material and therefore is more comfortable. It does dry very quickly to. The drawback is that you can puncture the suit quite easily. With the CF suit you trade comfort for durability. Which suit is best really depends on what kind of diving you do. </blockquote><br> I've pretty much had the same experience as Ingemar. My Sig Other, Maggie, aquired quite a few holes wreck diving with her TLS last year; but, damn, those suits are so nice, light and comfortable. I really think they swin faster than my CF, as well. And they're almost always dry in under an hour (except for the CF material bootie part). <br> <br> On the other hand, my CF200 takes forever to dry and is pretty heavy, but I've got 300+ dives on it and I've yet to get a puncture in it. And I spend alot of time wrenching lobsters out from underneath rusted hull plates (well, attempting to wrench 'em out...).<br> <br> As far as inherent bouyancy in CF suits, I've really never experienced any noticeable difference between 'em and the TLS suits, but I haven't dove the TLS' very much. In any case, I don't need any lead in salt water with my CF,Hog rigged SS backplate, 65Lb wings, dbl PST95's, cannister light, 400G Thinsulate jumpsuit and expedition weight poly pro underlayer, even at 400 psi on a hang. <br> <br> Maggie just ordered a custom CF for wrecks up here, and as soon as I can afford one, I'm going to order a custom TLS for a teaching in and using in situations where I won't be spending time kneeling on rusty metal. The shop I work at sells a couple of other brands of trilaminates (or used too). While the material looks nice and tough, the fit leaves a lot to be desired. I've NEVER seen a suit fit -nearly- as good as a custom, self-donning DUI suit. <br> <br> Tony Thomas, Dive Shop Monkee, Stingray Divers<br> <a href="http://www.stingraydivers.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.stingraydivers.com</a> </html> --=====================_23139022==_.ALT-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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