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- Page 1 DRY SUIT USER’S MANUAL English ver. 2.1...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS 03. Important warnings 04. Appropriate undergarment choice 05. Dry suit storage 15. How to dress a dry suit with front zip 21. How to collapse a dry suit 22. How to connect the inflating hose 23. Maintenance 25. Repairing a Dive System dry suit... -
Page 3: Important Warnings
This dry suit is neither a lift bag nor a BCD. Do not use the buoyancy capacity of your dry suit as means to lift heavy objects underwater. Do not use the dry suit in substitution of a BCD. - Page 4 Use appropriate transpiring technical shirts. How to store a dry suit • To store the dry suit, especially if you will not use it for longtime, it is necessary: • To wash both the exhaust and the inflating valves accurately with running fresh water • To wash the dry suit and let it dry in a shady place...
- Page 5 Attention: never ever use the side dry suit’s pockets as handholds to wear/un- wear the dry suit. Attention: do not walk with the dry suit without using the shoes given along with the suit itself. If stepping on possible sharp objects, damages to the dry suit and its user may be caused.
- Page 6 Attention: enlarge the wrist seal with your fingers well stretched out, do not grasp the wrist seals with nails. Stretch the wrist seal helping yourself with the dry suit’s sleeve. Attention: do not pull the wrist seal grasping it directly; pull from the dry suit’s sleeve.
- Page 7 How to undress a neoprene wrist seal Pull the cuff out helping yourself with the dry suit’s sleeve. Attention: it is very important to pull taking the dry suit’s sleeve, not the wrist seal. Attention: do not pull from the wrist seal. Even a brand new cuff can be irreme- diably damaged by a wrong dressing/undressing, with a consequent need of wrist seal’s replacement.
- Page 8 Attention: insert your hands from your ears’ side, not from your chin. Insert your head enlarging the neck seal. Tip the neck seal over on the dry suit’s inner part, so that the neck seal’s smooth part is in contact with your skin.
- Page 9 Attention: do not grasp the neck seal’s smooth part with your nails when dres- sing/undressing your dry suit. Even a brand new neck seal can be irremediably damaged by a wrong dressing/undressing, with a consequent need of neck seal’s...
- Page 10 As during the dressing phase, insert your hands on the neck seal’s sides and enlar- ge it; pull your head out. Attention: do not grasp the neck seal’s smooth part with your nails when undres- sing your dry suit.
- Page 11 Stretch the latex wrist seal carefully so that it adheres to your wrist very well Attention: if the latex wrist seal is not well stretched on your wrist, it can cause water seepage. Attention: do not use the dry suit’s sleeve as handhold to wear the cuff.
- Page 12 How to undress a latex wrist seals Insert two fingers inside the latex wrist seal, making sure to hold the whole cuff’s length. Stretch your hand out the wrist seal. Attention: even a brand new wrist seal can be irremediably damaged by a wrong dressing/undressing, with a consequent need of wrist seal’s replacement.
- Page 13 How to dress a latex neck seal Insert your head inside the dry suit until you arrive to touch the dry suit’s neck seal. Insert your hands from the neck seal’s sides and enlarge it. Attention: insert your hands from your ears’ side, not from your chin.
- Page 14 How to undress a latex neck seal As for the dressing phase, insert your hands from the neck seal’s sides and enlarge it making sure to catch the neck almost until its end. Pull your head out. Attention: even a brand new neck seal can be irremediably damaged by a wrong dressing/undressing, with consequent need of neck seal replacement.
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Page 15: How To Dress A Dry Suit With Front Zip
Attention: never ever use the side pockets as handholds to pull the dry suit. We suggest to wear and tie the speleo boots before going on to dress the dry suit. Braces. Wear the braces having care to cross them on your shoulders. - Page 16 Insert the your left arm (pic. 1) and bring the zip’s metallic part close to your neck. Insert your right arm (pic. 2). The sleeve will be next to your gluteus. Insert your left shoulder inside the dry suit and prepare to wear the neck seal (pics 3 and 4).
- Page 17 How to close a front zip Take the slider with your right hand, grasping the zip with your left hand to ease the closure up. Close the zip completely. Until you don’t have acquired a certain familiarity with a dry zip, we suggest to let your buddy check that it is completely closed. Attention: make sure that the dry zip always works in the correct position and tension.
- Page 18 Folding. Make the dry suit’s jacket fold and fasten the crotch buckle. The folding give the diver a great possibility of movement and to ease dressing and undressing up. Attention: for a correct folding functioning the braces must not be excessively...
- Page 19 How to undress a dry suit with front zip Unfasten and open the folding. Open the zip completely Attention: a not completely opened zip, besides rendering very difficult undres- sing phase, is also heavily subject to breakage. Undress the neck seal (see chapters “how to undress a neoprene neck seal” “how to...
- Page 20 “how to undress a latex wrist seal”) Let your right shoulder come out . Grasp the right sleeve with your left hand behind your back and extract your right arm. Proceed with undressing of your left arm and the rest of the dry suit.
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Page 21: How To Collapse A Dry Suit
Attention: use all cares described in the chapter “how to wear a dry suit” Crouch down to make all excessive air come out from your dry suit Close the neck seal Stand up and check that any excess of air has remained inside the dry suit. Just in case, repeat the operation. -
Page 22: How To Connect The Inflating Hose
How to connect the inflating hose Connect the hose given along with the dry suit to a low pressure exit (lp) of your fist stage. Attention: do not connect the hose to a high pressure exit (hp). Connecting a low pressure hose to a high pressure exit of first stage may cause the explosion of the hose itself with risk of serious injury. -
Page 23: Maintenance
Before starting maintenance, make sure that there aren’t any salt debris or other material on the zip. Wash with fresh water and let dry the dry suit before carrying out maintenance. - Page 24 Apply a small quantity of zip oil on both zip’s external sides, for all zip’s length. Pass uniformly the oil on the zip with a paper handkerchief. Attention: do not exceed in oil quantity. Attention: If the due oil for zips would not be available, it is possible to use the oil for sewing machines or oil for weapons.
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Page 25: Repairing A Dive System Dry Suit
However, it could be possible that a dry suit needs to be repaired, both in the parts subject to normal usage (neck and wrist seals) and in case of holes and accidental leakages.
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