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I don't wish to portray Typhoon on a bad light, but...
I bought a Typhoon drysuit back in '87, swore by it for years, then swore at it
for even more years.
The first problem occurred within ten dives, when one of the teeth on the
shoulder zip decided to dislodge itsself when the zip was done up. After a
number of hours of struggling, I finally got out of the suit! The suspect
tooth had reversed it's decision and the zip looked fine.
Next day, it split open from end to end at 20m.
The suit was sent away, and returned with a new zip. This never gave me any
problems again.
Around 1989, the suit was getting regularly damp inside and I was having
trouble with the boots. Another year of wet diving and after a week of getting
soaked, I'd had enough. I was having to pour latex glue over the inside of the
suit to make it waterproof. It was strange, the tri-laminate material seemed
to have gone porous!.
A phone call to typhoon with the suits serial number soon shed some light on
the matter. Apparently a batch of suits were suspect, and the material had
delaminated - mine included. So off it went to typhoon for the top-half
of the suit to be replaced Free-Of-Charge.
A month after their quoted delivery date, the suit turned up with a light-weight
zip which was shorted than the previous zip. They also forgot to transfer any
valves from the old suit to the new, they arrived some days later in a jiffy
bag.
From then on, the suit slowly deteriorated, I took to wearing a boiler suit
over the drysuit to give it some protection. I was regularly fixing 5-10
holes after every trip.
I replaced the suit last August, and have never looked back. I considered the
new Typhoon Ranger, but past experience with Typhoon put me off.
NEVER Again!
Rgrds
Callum
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Callum Beveridge International Computers Limited
Tel: +44 (0)344 472958 Lovelace Road
Fax: +44 (0)344 473246 Bracknell
Berkshire
Mail: cb@oa*.ic*.co*.uk* RG12 8SN
c.beveridge@br*.wi*.ic*.co*.uk*
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Life's a beach, then you dive!
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