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Try two layers of Thinsulate. What are you doing head and hands wise for thermal? -----Original Message----- From: "Gliviak, Jozef"<Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Date: Thu Sep 06 02:32:03 PDT 2001 Subject: Re: Polypropylen underwear >Guys, thanx a lot for your answers. >Just to specify more what I meant - polypropylen seems to work when you deal >with some levels of sweat. But in the moment you let accidentally some water >in, let's say through neck seal, the water gets transported through polypro >on the body and makes wet a quite large area and makes you cold. When the >quantities on water are higher it seems that the transport function to outer >layers just doesn't work as well as it works on pure Thinsulate which >basically immediatelly takes the water away from your skin. > >Secondly the important for me is to have a recomendation from you what you >use as a additional layer of insulation when just the Thinsulate is not >enough. I'm talking about a dives in temp between 4-6C and duration of >2+hours. Certainly I use argon, but I'm still cold on deco. > >Best regards >Jozef Gliviak >Slovakia > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sean T. Stevenson [mailto:ststev@un*.co*] >Sent: 5. septembra 2001 16:42 >To: Gliviak, Jozef; techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: Re: Polypropylen underwear > > >Josef, how wet was it? > >The polypropylene is recommended, not so much as additional insulative >layering, but rather to provide a thin layer immediately adjacent to your >skin that will take the sweat. This way, you wash the >polypro and don't need to clean the Thinsulate as often, so it lasts longer. >(Less laundering maintains maximum loft in the Thinsulate fibers, as well as >its hydrophobic qualities). > >If you are not warm enough, you can add argon to the suit with additional >weight to compensate. The benefit of any additional insulative layering >will probably not outweigh the disadvantage in loss >of dexterity. The other option is of course, electric heat, using the Gorix >type material. I think both DUI and Typhoon offer suits like this, which >are thin enough not to be a problem, but then you >have the additional expense, as well as having to deal with the battery >pack. > >Hope this helps. > >-Sean > > >On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:59:48 +0100, Gliviak, Jozef wrote: > >>Guys, from various sources an underwear from polypropylene was recomended >to >>me as the right choice for dry suit bottom layer to be worn (e.g. under >>thinsulate). According the information I've got it should transport water >>(sweat) from your skin to upper layers. >> >>I tried it and was a bit disapointed. May be it works well in open air but >>in closed enviroment when it was a bit wet it actually transported water >>under thinsulate and made more body surface wet and cold. What's your >>experience with this type of underwear? >> >>During those 4C dives which additional insulation do you use when yout >>Thinsulate is not sufficient? >> >>Best regards >> >> Jozef Gliviak >> Slovakia > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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