{"id":123,"date":"2016-04-25T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-12-03T03:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T03:19:58","slug":"the-leaky-drysuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/drysuit\/the-leaky-drysuit\/","title":{"rendered":"The leaky Drysuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, during the first round of Tech 1, every day, I was getting damper and damper. No, I wasn&#8217;t feeling the pressure from within and letting it out &#8230;. it was the outside coming inside my drysuit.<\/p>\n<p>So I suffered through ~90 minute dives in 8C waters with a leak from somewhere, that I would feel roughly 10 minutes into the dive on my right side &#8230; down by my zipper.<\/p>\n<p>Every dive I was getting wetter and wetter, and every evening, I was putting more and more Aquaseal near where I was thinking I was getting wet. Sounds simple enough, but it wasn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>One day, months later, I suddenly got wet on my left side at the same time &#8230;. hmmm<\/p>\n<p>Ironically? Coincidentally enough, that&#8217;s also when I finished a tub of margarine, something that was big enough to seal off my neck\u00a0seal. I just needed something to allow me to fill my suit up with gas so I could start to properly find where the leak was, aside from guessing with my LED flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up buying my first snorkel, and ripped off the fancy purge valve from it, and glued it into the bottom of the container. Add some broccoli elastic bands, a tip of a rubber glove to seal off the mouthpiece and away we went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0065-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0065\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0065-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0065-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0065-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0064-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0064\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0064-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0064-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0064-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I turned the suit inside out, sprayed very soapy water to where I thought the leak should be, and couldn&#8217;t find one.<\/p>\n<p>I just happened to look at it a little closer, and found some bubbles coming out of the bungee pocket along the backside.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0066-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0066\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0066-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0066-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0066-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I flipped the suit right side out, and while filling it back up, I glanced over and saw the now gaping hole through the outside of the suit in the back!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0062-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0062\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0062-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0062-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0062-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bottom bolt of my doubles had worn a hole though the tough skin of the drysuit, and kept on wearing it out until it made this massive hole.<\/p>\n<p>A few quick questions to DUI about how to tackle this location, as it was inside the sewn channel for some bungee, and determining, that I don&#8217;t really need that channel of bungee, I cut it out and patched the hole with a good size patch of material and Aquaseal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0068-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0068\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0068-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0068-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0068-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0069-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0069\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0069-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0069-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0069-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And low and behold, that was the only hole I had.<\/p>\n<p>Now my suit is back to being a true DUI suit, not a dry until immersed suit \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, during the first round of Tech 1, every day, I was getting damper and damper. 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