Quote: (Originally Posted by
LCF)
On a local board, an argument is raging about gloves. Someone who ought to have credentials (he's a WKPP support diver) is insisting that dry gloves are not DIR, because they can fail in so many annoying to disastrous ways, and that only wet gloves (or in warm water, no gloves) are a DIR-acceptable strategy.
I would have thought the "DIR" answer is for appropriate gloves for you and the conditions. In wet gloves through the colder months in the UK I lose the feeling in my fingers and can't work the boltsnaps properly so for me dry gloves mean that I can function on a dive.
I also wear them through the summer (with a thinner lining) because even if they get holed and flood they aren't going to be unbearable and it means I'm used to the same piece of kit for all dives.
I can see where he might be coming from in that dry gloves have far more failure points than wet gloves, but I'm not sure it's that simple
