Dry Gloves

[LKunze]

I have the Diving Concepts dry glove ring set up.  They are not permanent and the suit side ring attaches to the wrist seal as Omicron described.  I originally had the Diving Concepts compressed neoprene gloves which were junk.  They leaked all the time.  I sent them into Diving Concepts for warranty repair twice before finally giving up on them after patching them after virtually every dive with Aquaseal.  I switced last year to the blue Atlas PVC smurf gloves with the fuzzy yellow liners.  Those were decent and I had no complaints until I finally holed one this year.  Since they are PVC they are hard to patch.  Aquaseal doesn't bond to them and I tried PVC cement with no luck as well so I tossed them in the trash.  This fall I tried some fairly cheap chemical rubber/neoprene coated gloves from Home Depot...I'm assuming similar to the ones Omicron described he uses.  They are much easier to install onto the glove rings as they are thinner and do have better dexterity.  I wore cheap rag wool liners under them.  They were decent, but honestly I didn't think they were as warm as the blue smurf gloves and they didn't fit quite as well either as the fingers were too long.  After trying the three different types of gloves on my rings I may go back to the smurf gloves again next year.  They aren't that expensive, you can get them online for about 15 bucks a pair.