Dive Suit Care and Maintenance Instructions

A diving suit requires some responsibility from the owner to maintain concerning seam separation or delamination. The following instructions are guidelines for extending the life of your investment. Misuse of your dive suit may affect the manufacturer warranty.

• Do not use hair conditioner, Vaseline or any other wax or petroleum based products in a solution of any kind to slide suit on and off. Any use of these products voids any responsibility of manufacturer concerning seam separation or delamination.
• Use only a solution of 10% antibacterial soap and 90% warm or cold water or kelp slime to slide suit on and off.
• Use of hot water above 98F degrees body temp to flush, clean or "warm-up" after a dive attacks the glue seam and voids the warranty.
• Do not expose "skin" side of suit to heat such as direct sun, boat engine compartment or trunk of car.
• To dry suit leave material side out in sun only long enough to dry. Do not store suit in boat engine compartment or car trunk. Cool air drying is best in the shade.
• If diving nitrox or repetitive deep diving daily use a second suit to allow for suit recovery from compression. Using same suit repetitively reduces the life of the suit by half its normal life.
• Taking suit on and off is done best by slipping in and out of suit with soapy water. Reverse peeling out of a 3/8" or 1/2" suit puts a great deal of stress on glue seam and will cause seam breakdown. This breakdown is particularly aggravated by a dive tender pulling on the suit or the diver standing on part of the suit while reverse peeling the suit off.

Note: It is normal for a dive suit to show a thinner edge on the cuffs and ankles due to the compression and stretching of taking suit off and on. This doesn't mean the body of the suit has gotten thinner than the original thickness.