I see that the question of which company has the best dry suit has been beat to death. Since many of the questions about "the best dry-suit" are very subjective, I want to take another approach. I assume that those of you who have dry suits did a lot of research and came to conclusions based on both quality and price. I only want to hear from those of you who currently have a dry suit, and I only want the following information:
What brand and model of suit do you have?
Dry gloves or Wet?
Front zipper or rear?
Dump valve placement?
Regular boots or "tech" or "rock"?
P-valve or not?
Dive Rite 905
dry gloves
rear zip (front zip not an option on 905)
dump valve on left shoulder
regular boots
no p-valve (doesnt do shit for a girl
)
DUI TLS 350 (DIR compliant pockets)
wet and dry gloves (removable Viking ring system)
front zip
left shoulder Apeks hi-profile dump valve
rock boots (although I'd prefer DUI's military turbo soles, which is different from their regular turbo soles)
homemade non-balanced p-valve ()
DUI TLS 350
Dry Gloves
Front Zip
Left Shoulder
Rock Boots
No Pee-valve
Diving Concepts Ultraflex Trilam. Very Pleased. (4th dry suit over the years I've owned -best yet)
Dry Gloves -same company.
Front Zip.
Valve on wrist, like it more than shoulder.
Regular boots, very durable, came with suit.
NO p-valve, know too many who got urinary infections w/them.
Andy's DS3 (extreme material)
Dry gloves -- Diving Concepts
Front -- across the shoulders
Shoulder dump
Regular attached boots
No p-valve yet
DUI CLX 450
Dry Gloves
Back Zip
Rock Boots
Left Shoulder Dump
No P Valve (though thinking about it, they should be a new survey)
Dive Rite 905
dry gloves (Diving Concepts lookalikes from Bluepointe)
rear zip
left shoulder dump
DUI Rockboots (didn't like the stock boot)
balanced p-valve
DUI TLS350 drysuit
Front zip - standard zipper
DUI Ultra 400G Thinsulate undies (for the cold water
)
Softwear 300G Polar Fleece undies (for shallow summer dives)
Diving Concepts drygloves
5th-D bellows pockets
Shoulder dump (Apeks low profile)
DUI rock boots
Eliminator unbalanced P-valve
DUI CF200 drysuit (custom cut)
Front zip (traditional; not QuickZip)
DUI 400 gram Thinsulate (custom cut)
Shoulder dump (Apeks high profile style)
DUI rock boots (necessary evil for me)
no P-valve; may go balanced in the future.