Dive System DRY SUIT User manual

DRY SUIT
USER’S MANUAL
English
ver. 2.1

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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 inating hose
23. Maintenance
25. Repairing a Dive System dry suit

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Thank you for purchasing a DiveSystem® dry suit. Every DiveSystem® dry suit is
rigorously made in Italy within DiveSystem® premises, with the best quality mate-
rials and the best productive techniques.
All our dry suits are CE certified according to legislation EN 14225-2:2005
IMPORTANT WARNINGS
This manual CANNOT replace a qualified Instructor’s instructions.
Please, don’t use this dry suit until you don’t have acquired practical skills of diving
with a dry suit, in a controlled location, under a qualified Instructor’s supervision.
Please, make sure to follow all instructions and safety warnings contained in
this manual. An improper or bad use of this dry suit can cause serious injuries or
death, caused by the loss of buoyancy control or by the exposure to thermal dan-
gers such as hyperthermia or hypothermia.
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.
Pay particular attention in cold waters (<7°C): diving in cold waters (<7°C) is
particularly dangerous. Even if DiveSystem® equipment are suitable for these kind
of dives, a special training made by a qualified instructor is necessary anyway. Do
not take part to dives in cold waters unless you are properly trained and adequa-
tely equipped.
Pay particular attention also to neck and wrist seals measures. Please ensure
that the measures of neck and wrist seals are suitable to your build. In particular, a
extremely tight neck seal can cause serious risks to the user. Please refer to DiveSy-
stem® or to a DiveSystem® authorized dealer to intervene on neck and wrist seals.
Before diving, always check the conditions of valves, zips and seals of your
DiveSystem® dry suit.

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Choice of the appropriate undergarment
The choice of the appropriate undergarment depends on several factors such as:
- Thermal insulation of the dry suit
- Water temperature
- User’s sex, mass and weight.
Anyway, the undergarment must not prevent the diver from movements. It must
guarantee a thermal insulation neither excessive nor insufficient in order not to
incur respectively in hyperthermia or hypothermia.
Avoid to wear fabrics that get drench when in contact with the skin (such as cot-
ton). 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
• To carry out the ordinary maintenance of the zip. Close the zip leaving 2-3 cm
from the zip end. This precaution will allow you to handle the zip more easily in
case of oxidation owing to a long stop or to an imperfect maintenance. If the
zip should oxidize, an ordinary maintenance should be carried out immedia-
tely
• To hang the dry suit to a wide shoulders hanger, paying particular attention to
the neck position
• To hang the dry suit in a fresh, dry and shady place.

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How to dress a dry suit
Preliminary actions.
Especially when a dry suit is new, the exhaust valve is normally subject to settle-
ment inside its site. Such settlement may recur also after long periods of the dry
suit’s inactivity.
Before diving it is still necessary to check and, just in case, clamp the exhaust valve.
Grasp the external ferrule base and the inner valve, clamping clockwise.
Attention: Clamp the valve grasping the external ferrule base, not the valve itself
(meaning the part used to open or close the valve’s drain during the dive).
An incorrect exhaust valve’s clamping may let water get inside the valve’s site.
Dressing/undressing preventive measures
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.

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Dressing a neoprene wrist seal
Lubricate with neutral soap or mineral talcum powder both neoprene wrist seal’s
inner part, then insert your hand, closed as a cone, inside the cuff.
Insert two/three fingers of the other hand inside the cuff and enlarge the wrist to
ease up the wrist seal’s wearing.
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.

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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.
NO NO

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How to dress a neoprene 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.
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.

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Attention: tip the neck seal over carefully. A wrong or not sufficient fold could
cause water entrance during your dive.
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
replacement.
NO

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How to undress a neoprene neck seal
Move outside the neck seal’s smooth part which has been previously in contact
with your skin, paying particular attention not to grasp it with your nails.
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.

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How to dress a latex cu
Lubricate with neutral soap or with mineral talcum powder both latex wrist cuffs’
inner part, insert your hand closed as a cone inside it
Attention: enlarge the wrist seal with your fingers well stretched out, do not grasp
the wrist seals with nails.
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.
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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.
Attention: do not pull the latex seal from its extremity
Attention: do not grasp a latex wrist seal with your nails
To avoid any problem while undressing the wrist seal, pay particular attention to
lubrication carried out during the dressing phase.

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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.
Insert your head enlarging the neck seal.
Attention: enlarge the neck seal with well stretched fingers, do not grasp the neck
seal with your nails.
Stretch the latex neck seal out carefully, so that it adhere well to your neck.
Attention: if the latex neck seal is not well stretched out on your neck, water see-
page may occur.

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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.
Attention: do not pull the latex neck seal from its top.
Attention: do not grasp the latex neck seal with your nails

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How to dress a dry suit with front zip
Foot and Legs
Dress the dry suit until your pelvis, having care to let the braces out before intro-
ducing your legs.
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.
Attention: the braces must not impede movements. Adapt the braces well throu-
gh their buckles. An incorrect braces regulation may affect the dry suit’s comfort.

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How to dress the sleeves
Make sure that the zip is completely opened and the crotch suspender unfaste-
ned.
Attention: if the zip is not completely opened, may render the dressing phase
difficult and, above all, it could be subjected to breakage.
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).
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3
2
4

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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.
Attention: pay particular attention not to catch the undergarment in the zip.
Attention: if the zip should not slide fluently, it is necessary to carry out the ordi-
nary maintenance (see chapter “maintenance”)
Attention: an incorrect use or the lack of maintenance may heavily reduce the dry
zip’s life.

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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
tight or broad (see chapter“braces”)

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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
undress a latex neck seal”)

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Take the zip next to your neck’s left side.
Undress the right cuff (see chapter“how to undress a neoprene wrist seal”and
“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.