How to choose equipment for scuba diving

How to choose equipment for scuba diving

Immersion on depth even in the warm seas does sensitive the issue not only equipments of the diver, but also his equipment – clothes for immersion. It is necessary to choose equipment for scuba diving, considering those conditions in which you will mainly plunge.

Instruction

1. Beach swimming trunks and bathing suits will be suitable for tourist immersions on depths up to 5-6 meters in Turkey, the Emirates or Egypt. The main reason for which you will need equipment – danger of overcooling therefore you should forget about usual sports swimming trunks and bathing suits if you are the athlete-scuba diver or the diver.

2. At the same time it is necessary to notice that even for immersion in the southern and shallow Red Sea you should put on. At depths of 6-10 meters you can already feel effect of "mesolimnion" - when more dense and cold deep don't mix up with warm blankets of sea water. Temperature drop in the layer 20-25 cm thick can be the 15-20th - your head and the trunk will be in heat, and will be very cold to legs.

3. At temperatures up to 21 wasps choose the "wet" diving suit to which at immersion water gets. Your body won't freeze because the water which got in the diving suit will heat up, but won't follow from it. Sew such the suit from the made foam rubber – the neoprene which doesn't allow water to circulate inside and to cool down. Such suits can be with trousers both to knees, and to ankles that allows to use them with special "boots" which sew from the neoprene too.

4. For deep-water immersions at temperatures 15-20os and subglacial diving you will need Sukhoi the diving suit in which water doesn't circulate on the surface of the body, and skin remains dry. Choose it to that cut which will consider features of your figure that the suit densely adjoined to the surface of the body, but allowed to dress under it several layers of the lower clothes. On sale there are neoprene and trilaminatny models with the membranes protecting from flowing. The cost of such suit, of course, will be several times higher, than "wet".

5. As the lower clothes at immersions in the "dry" diving suit use the special, densely fitting the body layered clothing. It is made of mixed threads with addition of natural woolen fibers. Regulating quantity of layers, you will be able to use with comfort the "dry" diving suit at different depths and at different temperatures.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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