Gloves to keep warm

[garethwoodruff]

Hi Folks,

Anyone got any ideas on any really good 5mm semi dry gloves. I'm off doing a Trimix course the weekend after next at the NDC and I've still got my original gloves, I recon they are not upto the job really:confused:

They need to be close fitting, so you can manipulate kit, but VERY warm for long dive times in chilly quarry water!

Any idea's (I don't want dry gloves !)

Thanks in advance Gareth.

[Beanie]

O'Three 3 finger mitts, toasty hands.
I used them all last winter down to 4 degrees and my hands never got cold and I could still use them to don and doft stages and fly my inspiration.

[Ben Thompson]

I'd agree with that, O3 three finger mitts are great!

-2 (yes, minus 2) degree C water for 30-40 minutes at a time, and tending ropes for half and hour or so in -15 air temperatures. Only problem is the tips of my thumbs and first finger got a bit chilly after half an hour or so. Can do all the kit fondling you like with them on.

A couple of others on the trip had the poseidon 3-finger mitts, which are basically the same, but a very rare find!

[Richard Greenwood]

A couple of others on the trip had the poseidon 3-finger mitts, which are basically the same, but a very rare find!

Got mine from Stoney Cove a couple of years ago. Not sure if they still stock them, but might worth a call.

Definitly agree, three finger mitts are a must for winter diving.

Richatd

[Tor]

Yup Stoney have 3 fingered P's at £22.50 if memory serves. Just got mine and after a pretty cool Loch dive I was toasty.

[garethwoodruff]

Thanks guys,

I got a pair of the Poseiodon 3 fingered mitts for £20, kept my fingers, if not warm, reasonably comfy, and that was doing 35 minutes of stops in 9 degrees water.


Thanks Again.

Gareth.

[Steve Pearson]

The best ones I've found are the Northern Diver flexi gloves.

Fabulous, they do them in 2mm and 5mm. and are £15/pair

I did a 60m+ Trimix dive on Sunday using them in about 8 degrees, never felt the cold at all, and at those depths were still fully flexible. They're like wearing a pair of spongy rubber gloves and get my vote 100%

Steve

[John Williams]

I'm gonna really throw the cat amongst the pigeons now....

I looked long and hard for warm gloves (did the mits, did the dry, did the thicker neoprene, did the diesel gloves inside - did the lot!)

Always got good results for the first few dives...then the fingertips wore out and the resultant flushing returned me to frozen digits! Patching and glueing or "surefixing" never lasted long - and just meant that I lost all feeling in the end of my fingers.

Then I decided to try my "summer gloves" - those thin ones with 3mm neoprene on the back and "suede" on the front!

I kept the long cuffs - but turned them over so that they were doubled over my latex wrist seals (even got to cutting a hole in one "turn down" to expose my watch - which was put on over one layer of neoprene)

Because I never got holes I never got flushing - so I did not get cold fingers!

As a bonus I could also feel things much better and had much more dexterity in whatever I was trying to do - kit, slate, etc.
(meaning that I did not have to remove them to strip my kit after the dive!)

Of course ... I've never got into extended deco stops - but I have used them for extended dives in cold water.

Over an hour under the ice at Helwith Bridge on a few occasions was completed without contracting frostbite.

They can also be worn as driving gloves on the rib trip back home!

- gotta be worth a thought?

John

[David Tombs]

I know its an obvious point,but its just as importaint to keep the hands warm after/between dives,especially on a rib. I use neoprene gloves from godive with good band to prevent flushing which seem better than the fleece lined gloves I have used. To be honest I wonder if I do not loose much more heat from the cold open circuit air I breath. Mind you its not as icy a blast as my wife gave me when I told her the price of a rebreather. She did not seem to care about the value of warm air,strange that!

[Tony Watson]

for winter the posidon 5 finger without any thing else stuffed inside are great and I can still work the camera in stoney/caperwray no problem and teach.

[James - Narked@50]

I can't believe no one has mentioned dry gloves?

I know they are not everyones cup of T, but when the temperature is dropping like now I usually end up wearing them. The reason is that although I have less dexterity in dry gloves, this is far more than I have with numb fingers.

James

[John Williams]

I can't believe no one has mentioned dry gloves?

James

James....did you not start at the very beginning?
(Well ...it IS Christmas and "The Sound of Music" has been on already!)

The Original post said:
Any idea's (I don't want dry gloves !)


So - they HAVE been mentioned...and excluded from the thread ...but the person who opened the thread!

All the very best

John

[James - Narked@50]

James....did you not start at the very beginning?
(Well ...it IS Christmas and "The Sound of Music" has been on already!)

The Original post said:


So - they HAVE been mentioned...and excluded from the thread ...but the person who opened the thread!

All the very best

John

Sorry John

Didn't read the small print.

Still, I think he should re-consider :p

James