Talk:Dry suit

Drysuits for other uses than scuba diving?

• The intro mentions that drysuits are worn by "scuba divers, small boat users and others who work or play in or near to cold water", but the rest of the article is exclusively about the scuba-diving kind. It would be great to get some input from kayakers, for example, who often wear a different kind of drysuit. FreplySpang 18:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• I made the text more generic, and added entries for watersports. My experience is with wind and kite surfing, so it would still be good to get kayaking info.

--Dhaluza 03:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge

• I'm against the merge. A drysuit is not a type of wetsuit. They are both environmental and thermal protection suits for use in or near water. Both were at one time described in a single article (diving suit); do we really want to go endlessly round in circles? Mark.murphy 17:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
• No thanks, they are completly different things...

Chris 21:21 & 21:22, 5 October 2006 User:86.132.5.1

A redirect needed

• Not an editor or contributor to this page, but I just wanted to let you know that "Dry Suit" redirects to "Diving suit" instead of here. I assume this is an artifact that someone would want to fix. 74.93.230.113 19:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
•  Done by me at 21:23, 10 July 2007. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

List of makers and sellers of drysuits?

• I BOUGHT A DRYSUIT last year. After getting some basic information on this website, I gathered information about drysuits for use at water's surface. Eventually bought a suit for sculling that had been designed for kayakers. I think it w3ould be helpful for readers to have access to a list of manufacturers and sales outlets. Drysuit user (talk) 01:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

• • Could be, but we're an encyclopedia-- we explicitly are not a directory. -- Mwanner | Talk 18:44, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Spelling

• Why is wetsuit one word, whereas dry suit is two words. Shouldn't related content be created in a consistent method? Merriam-Webster.com says that both entries are 2 words, with alternate spelling as one word. Wikipedia needs to standardize spelling, so we don't have British spelling mixed together with American in articles. 15:01, 23 December 2008 User:76.117.112.223

Replied at Talk:Wetsuit#Spelling --RexxS (talk) 20:11, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

• * It's a valid point. At least one mainstream source (the PADI Open Water Diver manual) uses "wet suit" and "dry suit" consistently throughout. At the very least, the article should use a consistent form throughout, so I have edited the Dry Suit article to be internally consistent with itself, using the two word form used in the canonical title. --Ukslim (talk) 09:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

• No argument about 'dry suit'. Nevertheless, the wikipedia article is Wetsuit and a check through the sources cited there shows a clear majority using 'wetsuit' as the spelling. I've always believed 'usage in sources' is preferred to 'consistency with similar words'. The variant of a word as an article title is governed by the policy WP:Naming conventions which states "Wikipedia determines the recognizability of a name by seeing what verifiable reliable sources in English call the subject." So we have 'wetsuit' as the article title and within that article - it would clearly be inconsistent to use 'wet suit' there. This leads us to the position where we now have 'wetsuit' within the article Wetsuit and 'wet suit' within the article Dry suit. Could I respectfully suggest you reconsider your changes from 'wetsuit' to 'wet suit' here? --RexxS (talk) 15:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Kayaking

This is a scuba article, but dry suits aren't only used for scuba. I use one about 1/3 of the year while kayaking. It would be nice to see a more balanced article, so as not to steer people in the wrong direction. For example, there are no valves or BCD on a kayaking dry suit. Yet these ARE available (ie they really do exist), and somebody doing preliminary research into a new hobby is likely to think otherwise if they being their research here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.201.209 (talk) 19:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. As you may have realised, Wikipedia is a work-in-progress and relies on volunteer contributors (such as yourself) to improve each article. Why not add the information you have to the article? If you have any sources (books, magazines, websites, etc.) that support what you say, make a note of them, and be prepared to add them as references - or ask here on the talk page for someone to add them for you if you are unsure. --RexxS (talk) 21:09, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't get it. The article lists "boating" (in which I'd include kayaking) as one of the many uses. Valves etc. are in an "Optional" subheading. The section on valves explicitly states that valves aren't required on the surface. Was the commenter looking at a historical version? --Ukslim (talk) 14:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

In Popular Culture

Is it worth mentioning the pop culture trope about superspies like James Bond wearing tuxedos under scuba gear. Especially since Mythbusters proved that it was plausible?Mr. ATOZ (talk) 20:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)