Whats the best dry suit for dredging in the cold?

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7mm wetsuit with a quality heater will be better than any drysuit.
A dry suit becomes useless when you get one pinhole in it, might as well get wet and be done with it.
 

I use a 7mm long john with jacket, very warm, ability to make it not so warm if it becomes too much and they were fairly cheap
 

With new closed cell technology in wetsuit rubber you are toasty warm with a proper hood, dual gloves and water socks with hiking boots. I tried a dozen drysuits and holes, torn seals etc etc make them a pain and cost is insane. No one stays down on the rough sharp bottom like dredgers so made for swimming and fishie looking. ALSO you must pee,just a fact of life. In a wetsuit just pull down the zipper and done. Drysuit,crawl outta the water,turn dredge down/off,tear off them heavy weights,tear that thang off before you pee yourself-THEN you get to repeat the same process multiple times a day at a costs of hours of production instead of a zip,pee and back to work in a minutes time-John
 

And the way it always works, the instant you're suited up, in the water and dredge is running ,you have to pee.
 

It has to be a dry suit. I will be Working in below zero temps and it is an hour on snow shoes back to the cabin. I don't care about cheep. DRY is the operative word. So far i have found one made by BARE available from Alaska Mining and diving supply, and one made for Proline by I forget who. Dose anyone know of any other good DRY suits or Know these ones?
 

With new closed cell technology in wetsuit rubber you are toasty warm with a proper hood, dual gloves and water socks with hiking boots. I tried a dozen drysuits and holes, torn seals etc etc make them a pain and cost is insane. No one stays down on the rough sharp bottom like dredgers so made for swimming and fishie looking. ALSO you must pee,just a fact of life. In a wetsuit just pull down the zipper and done. Drysuit,crawl outta the water,turn dredge down/off,tear off them heavy weights,tear that thang off before you pee yourself-THEN you get to repeat the same process multiple times a day at a costs of hours of production instead of a zip,pee and back to work in a minutes time-John


I understand the pee part but please explain the "zip"...:censored:

no one borrows my suit...lol
 

Bonaro simply a pee zipper to release the leviathion and back to work in mere minutes.John
 

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