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buying a new wet suit for Victorian waters, any information will help.

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hi guys, so my birthdays in a few months now and decided i might get a new wet suit. the wet suit i own now is just a shorty wet suit and i want to upgrade to a two piece suit. what do you guys recommend. I'm looking around the 3.5 mm open cell. and what camo would you suggest for the bay here. i was thinking about the Torelli Pangaea 3.5 mm but to be honest i have no idea about camos. anything will help guys. much appreciated in advance.

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Hi mako just wondering if you do custom sizes since I'm very tall but also pretty skinny. I find it hard to find a off the rack suit that actually fits. By the way I had a look at your Site and honestly for the price you sell at I think I'll be buying from mako. That's if I can get the right size.
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A lot of my friends have Mako suits--I don't know if taxes change things for Austrailia but in the states they are considered a very good value. A custom suit can be VERY nice if you dive all the time and/or are a deep diver (especially in cold water) but it would cost 2 to 3 times what an off the rack suit costs. If you are able to dive in a 3.5mm shorty, your water probably isn't too cold and a perfectly fitted custom suit, while very comfortable probably isn't gonna be the best use of your money, especially for a first open cell suit. Unless you have an extraordinarily unique body an off the rack suit is probably going to fit you fine, provided you can go to a store with a large inventory where they'll let you try on some of the suits before you buy. Get a camo pattern that you think looks cool, better if it matches your local dive terrain (the fish won't care).

Some manufacturers will let you at least mix and match tops if you pay a little extra which can help you get a fit. I have a custom Oceaner and I love it but I certainly wouldn't appreciate it the way I do if I hadn't completely destroyed an Omer in 3 years of diving at least once a week, and in the process learned how to care for a suit both in and out of the water. Better to make mistakes with an off the rack suit, unless you have money to burn.
 
Thanks for the information. I got a hold of Rob torelli suits based here in Melbourne and waiting for a reply to see if they make custom sizes. The thing is I'm very tall but lanky at the same time. Some suits I fit into a XL due to my height but a medium for my weight (I'm 6 foot 1 inches and weigh 72kg) so when I went to my local dive shop they said I won't be able to get a good fitting suit off the rack. It's bloody frustrating trying to get the right suit so I can dive in winter.

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I was nervous about the fit of mako wet suit before I ordered as like you I am very skinny (not as tall as would like to be) I'm 5.9 and weigh in at 115. I bought the medium mako and I kid you not it fit like a glove! The other thing i was worried about was restriction from the suit on my breathing but this suit stretches beyond belief and it's as effortless to inhale completely as it was before, the force it takes to stretch this suit is amazingly low. When I bought a 5 mill reef camo I wasn't sure if it would keep me warm enough but once I got out of my lake (which almost as cold as the ocean at the time) within 3 minutes it felt like my suit was a working sauna, I honestly could't believe how warm the water was. Plus at that price

I know what your thinking and I'm not sponsored by mako. I just have a thing for picking high quality retailers and sticking with them.
 
Thanks for the information mate. I'm tossing up going with a mako or a rob torelli suit. Has Anyone had either one to compare

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I have the mako 3 mil suit, love it great and holy stretch! I to am very skinny but I'm not as tall as I going to be (hopefully lol) so the medium fits me perfect from the beginning and despite y growth since I got it it still fit perfectly and is going to stretch with for another year or two at least! Farmer john in the 3 mil is what I do and even in northern Atlantic waters I dive ocean and lake from early spring to late fall imagine what I a 5-7 would do... Go mako, unbeatable service every time I've worked with them (a lot).


This year I have been diving a lot in my lake almost always with my suit. Tried to do it without my suit... Lasted a quarter of the time I usually do and got hyperthermia (lips were actually blue, not from hypoxia!) need less to say I suit every time now.. Get some suit slip if you with mako, you can put the suit on with out any lube (just water) if you have determination or forgot you lube but honestly O can actually put on my 2 piece and be in the water before my friends get half way into there shorties.

Get under suit hammers well your at it or suffer the bunchies (no matter what suit you get).

I swear I'm not getting payed to say this
 
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