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--=====================_6705395==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:54 PM 11/3/99 +0100, Ingemar Lundgren wrote: >>c) Dry gloves: You need to get air in the glove. A squeezed glove is cold >>and do not give you finger tip feel. To get air in to the glove with no >>cuffs you extend the sleeve of your underwear underneath the seal. This >>will get enough air in to equalize and gives the added benefit of warming >>your wrist which has a lot of blood vessels near the skin, you lose a lot >>of heat in your wrists. Protecting you wrist will give you about 50% >>extra warmth in my experience. You can also use a soda straw but this >>will not warm you wrist. The tendons of my wrist form a channel / funnel if I clench my hand. By doing so I can get gas into the glove during descent and back into the suit during ascent. Using this method I don't need the straw or liner breaking the seal, causing flooding of the suit if the glove leaks. Just clench and equalize! This may not work for everybody but it's very common to experience some ingress of water if you clench a rope while wearing a dry suit and ordinary neoprene gloves. If you have experienced this you can turn it to your advantage while using dry gloves. regards, Hans --=====================_6705395==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> At 11:54 PM 11/3/99 +0100, Ingemar Lundgren wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite>c) Dry gloves: <font color="#000099">You need to get air in the glove. A squeezed glove is cold and do not give you finger tip feel. To get air in to the glove with no cuffs you extend the sleeve of your underwear underneath the seal. This will get enough air in to equalize and gives the added benefit of warming your wrist which has a lot of blood vessels near the skin, you lose a <b><u>lot</b></u> of heat in your wrists. Protecting you wrist will give you about 50% extra warmth in my experience. You can also use a soda straw but this will not warm you wrist. </font></blockquote></blockquote><br> The tendons of my wrist form a channel / funnel if I clench my hand. By doing so I can get gas into the glove during descent and back into the suit during ascent. Using this method I don't need the straw or liner breaking the seal, causing flooding of the suit if the glove leaks. Just clench and equalize! This may not work for everybody but it's very common to experience some ingress of water if you clench a rope while wearing a dry suit and ordinary neoprene gloves. If you have experienced this you can turn it to your advantage while using dry gloves.<br> <br> regards,<br> <br> Hans <br> </html> --=====================_6705395==_.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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