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Scuba Forum / General / March 2008help needed finding a wetsuit
I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for filmmaking. I need to be in the water just offshore to film someone coming out of the water, I might be in the water for 10-30 minutes. Any help on sizing would be appreciated, I am not superfat, but I am overweight, and tall, I do not want to buy a wetsuit online only to find it does not fit. What size should I look for? Any link to a suit that should fit me? Thank you. randall "rand...@nowhere.net" <r.oeler...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm > in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > find it does not fit. What size should I look for? Any link to a suit > that should fit me? Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits. -hh ... > Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits. Thanks! problem is now solved! I just called a local dive shop and they rent suits. For $60 I can rent a wetsuit, hood, and boots for two days, perfect for my filmmaking needs. >... >> Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits. > >Thanks! problem is now solved! I just called a local dive shop and >they rent suits. For $60 I can rent a wetsuit, hood, and boots for two >days, perfect for my filmmaking needs. Why not rent a drysuit instead? You'll be a lot warmer that way. >>... >>> Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Why not rent a drysuit instead? You'll be a lot warmer that way. Well it might help if he knew how to use a dry suit. A wet suit you just put on and add some weight > Well it might help if he knew how to use a dry suit. A wet suit you just > put on and add some weight He's going to be bobbing around on the surface... Not much in needing to know at that point... There are non-diving-type drysuits that would even work in this situation...  SignatureSee NNTP header field "X-Real-Email-Address" to reply by email. On Mar 1, 11:16 pm, Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2...@spambob.net> wrote: ... > He's going to be bobbing around on the surface... Not much in needing to > know at that point... There are non-diving-type drysuits that would even > work in this situation... ... Why won't my body weight keep me vertical? I plan on going out from shore just perhaps 10 yards where it should be just six feet deep, I am 6'4, 260lbs. Won't I be able to stay vertical, standing on the lake bottom, and film with my camera? Or does the wetsuit cause so much buoyancy that I will not be able to do that? Or do I need to rent some sort of weight belt along with the wetsuit rental? "randall@nowhere.net" <r.oelerich@gmail.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Why won't my body weight keep me vertical? I plan on going out from :shore just perhaps 10 yards where it should be just six feet deep, I :am 6'4, 260lbs. Won't I be able to stay vertical, standing on the lake :bottom, and film with my camera? Or does the wetsuit cause so much :buoyancy that I will not be able to do that? Or do I need to rent :some sort of weight belt along with the wetsuit rental? Depends on how deep you wade. I used to shore dive, with either a thick wetsuit, or drysuit, in cold fresh water. I would wade out until the water was up to my armpits or so, put on my fins, and go. Staying veritcal was not a problem. But if you're 6'4 and you wade into 6' water, staying vertical won't be your problem as much as staying on the bottom. Suits are bouyant. You might need extra weights, either around your waist or ankles. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. Dan Bracuk <bracuk@pathcom.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Depends on how deep you wade. I used to shore dive, with either a :thick wetsuit, or drysuit, in cold fresh water. I would wade out :until the water was up to my armpits or so, put on my fins, and go. :Staying veritcal was not a problem. Oops, I was wearing a weight belt because I was going diving. That might be relevent. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. "randall@nowhere.net" <r.oelerich@gmail.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm :in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] : Thank you. : randall Do you live near a diveshop where you can try stuff on? Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm in > the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. You're gonna die... Or at least freeze your 'nads off... SignatureSee NNTP header field "X-Real-Email-Address" to reply by email. Lake Superior has two states: Frozen ice Melted ice You're going to come out a Popsicle... And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan. ;-) > I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm > in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thank you. > randall > Lake Superior has two states: > Frozen ice [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan. > ;-) ... it can be tolerable in July/August. I have actually gone swimming in the water off this beach (Duluth) in summer in just swim trunks, for up to 30 minutes, invigorating to say the least. If you get a wind from the north or NE in summer it can actually feel like warm bath water, but that is quite rare. Usually the surface water might be 50-60 but if you stop swimming and treat water vertical you are screwed-- about a foot under it drops to 33 degrees, just above freezing!!! I know someone who dived scuba to see shipwrecks in Lake Superior and he said it really creeped him out, the water got so cold and dark down there he just could not do it anymore. >Lake Superior has two states: >Frozen ice [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan. >;-) Surface temps can be downright balmy on Superior in the summer. Well, in the 70s anyway. |
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