THE IMPOSSIBLE DRY SUITS
The historic dry suits in rubber leaf without valves, therefore not compensable caused some painful "hugs" even diving for a few meters. We were used to see them in the old books split in two pieces, sealed at the waist between jacket and trousers by a special overlapping belt the guaranteed their tightness. Now, in the section recently opened on this website, devoted precisely to dry suits, we show some surprising models from countries far from Europe.
In particular, we managed to see papers of some American wetsuits made during the 1950s in which the diver "enters" from the front, through a kind of tube or tunnel. We don’t know how difficult was to get the whole body into them. Then the "tube" was twisted and made airtight by tying it with a rubber band, finally pushing the resulting knot inside. To make it all the more incredible is the discovery that dressed like that, looking like sausages, some divers with their rifles used to hunt in free diving.
A wetsuit like this, a model we imagine designed for the summer, is a kind of watertight romper with short sleeves and breeches above the knee. The funny suit seems really to have existed, as we can see from the photos of the technical data sheets.
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