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Becoming a Dry Suit Diver

The first time I dived with a dry suit was when I took my Advances Open Water Certificate. The instructor gave me a dry suit that was way too big and the problems occurred almost directly when entering the ocean.

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I floated up to the surface like a balloon. Since the suit’s legs were too big my feet ended up where my legs were supposed to be. Not good at all. The instructor tried to get me around but it was not simple and I could see him panicking as well.It all ended up with the instructor pulling me in to the shore, a nice long surface swim up-side-down for me.I was supposed to try it again but the instructor moved abroad and I ended up using nothing but the good old wet suit.

When I come to Malta next week the water temp. will be about 15-16 degrees Celsius and if I am going to  dive 2-3 times a day I will need a dry suit. At least that is what the instructors down there told me. I am a viking I used to tell them, I only dive in wet suit no matter what temperature the water is :)

Becoming a Dry Suit Diver

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I booked my dry suit course at my local diving shop in Perstorp, Sweden, and since it is snowing here in Sweden I supposed we were going to be in a pool, inside.

The 21th of January I took my certificate in 0,2 degree Celsius cold water in a quarrie. It went great and I actually liked the dive under ice (we had to break some to go in and the swim underneath it until it was open water again). It was cold, actually it was so cold that the regulators started free flowing. First mine then the instructor’s. What can you do to get warm when you dive in 0,2 degree Celsius water? A nice long surface swim back to exit point!

But the dive was amazing, I came up happy - and dry! It is all very new to me and I can’t claim that I now am a Dry Suit PRO, but I am on my way and I will buy one when I arrive in Malta. And that will be, by the way, in just 12 days!

Guest post written by: Camillia Appelgreen