Sharkskin or similar

Natny · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:02 am **Posts:** 22

I am a cold blooded person, and often get quite cold while diving. What do others think of Sharkskin or Fourth Element undergarments for under wetsuits? And does anyone know where the best place to buy something like this would be?

Packhorse · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:02 pm

http://www.petemesley.com/ Is the NZ distributor of 4th element. I have a wetsuit undergarment top and its great but it is expensive. If you are serious about diving all year around you may want to consider a dry suit. Which Pete also does.

tazbubz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:01 pm

i just use a rashy, but in saying that I also have flab-dominals which make me extra toasty

Alex · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:56 am

rashtop for me under the wetsuit too, and I've always been fine with it, even through winter...

...having said that I did get my first drysuit this year (big girl's blouse that I am) and I have 4th element Artic stuff underneath and I'm very happy with it.

toucan · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:34 pm

i was cold on the first day of my dive with a 5mm up in the poor knights. i borrowed a sharksnin on day two. the down side was it seemed to take longer to warm up but once i was warm i stayed that way for ages and ages. i am sooooo buying one b4 easter

Dive Mistress · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:58 pm

i'm a total girls blouse and i wear fourth element under my wetsuit in the summer. when i take my wetsuit off, i'm not as cold either as i am a lot drier.

in the winter, i wear fourth element thermocline under my arctics.

hows that for completely soft?

Russell · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:49 am

toucan wrote:

i was cold on the first day of my dive with a 5mm up in the poor knights. i borrowed a sharksnin on day two. the down side was it seemed to take longer to warm up but once i was warm i stayed that way for ages and ages. i am sooooo buying one b4 easter

When you get a sharkskin, they come with either a hood or long sleeves. I got a hooded one so that in summer I don't need to wear another hood, but it compromises the neckseal on my semidry so it's a little bit counter productive.

If I bought another one I would get the long sleeves. Other than that they are good.

You don't want to buy a hooded one do you? About 4 months old?

toucan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:22 pm

what size and how much

Russell · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:33 pm

Size M. I'll have to try and find the receipt to work out how much it is worth. Probably $40 less than retail.

toucan · **Posted:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:11 pm

hmmmm. might be a bit small

Russell · **Posted:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:13 pm

toucan wrote:

hmmmm. might be a bit small

Yeah I'm not a very big fella, no worries.

toucan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:20 pm

bummer coz i would have been keen!

tazbubz · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:24 pm

Russell wrote:

toucan wrote:

hmmmm. might be a bit small

Yeah I'm not a very big fella, no worries.

toucan wrote:

bummer coz i would have been keen!

plumb bob · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:08 pm

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