Convenience zip?

[Spiderman]

Having been surfing for years and fishing last year in a surf suit I have always been happy to drink lots of water and pee freely in my suit. However I have now ordered a tailor made spearfishing suit and I don't fancy peeing in something that fits so snugly. I have seen other threads about p-valves and pissettes but the former looks too complex and the latter too embarassing by far. Scuba divers have convenience zips on their drysuits - could one be fitted to a wetsuit?

 

[island_sands]

Having been surfing for years and fishing last year in a surf suit I have always been happy to drink lots of water and pee freely in my suit. However I have now ordered a tailor made spearfishing suit and I don't fancy peeing in something that fits so snugly. I have seen other threads about p-valves and pissettes but the former looks too complex and the latter too embarassing by far. Scuba divers have convenience zips on their drysuits - could one be fitted to a wetsuit?

hi Spiderman
this is been discussed in great length rofl

http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=63496&highlight=pissette

and search for the word pissette in the seach bar

 

[Spiderman]

Thanks for the llink. I have read this and other threads but I cannot find any mention of anyone actually trying a zip. A zip seems to me to be an ideal solution (useful for women too) but I wonder if anyone has any experiences to share or reasons why it wouldn't work?

 

[Hypersquid1]

omg i remember that pissette thread! rofl rofl rofl that was the funniest thing i have ever seen in my life rofl whatever you do, DO NOT get the pissette. i would rather pee in my suit and let cold water in to wash it out than have that thing. but yes that pissette thread will provide some good laughs.

 

[Huan]

You can laugh but the wetsuit manufacturers will have the last laugh- at your expense.

 

[Hypersquid1]

how? if i dont buy their product, how can they laugh at me for not buying one of their products, not giving them any of my money, and not supporting their company? i have not given them any sort of profit if i dont buy their product, so how can it be at my expense if they laugh? they would have nothing against the consumers that go to a different company.

 

[Erik]

Relax Hypersquid. Now we're laughing at you.
Spiderman, it's definitely doable, just make sure you get a dry-zip installed, not a useless/screen-door wetsuit zip, or you'll negate the whole effect of a proper freedive suit.
Peace,
Erik Y.

 

[marginatus]

and when closing the zip do it as carefully as you can since the suit will be more close to the body than pants.

 

[spaghetti]

and when closing the zip do it as carefully as you can since the suit will be more close to the body than pants.

Margy you got the point: take care of your genitals. A pee zip for me is not a good idea if you go deep: a good neoprene compresses at depth under pressure, but the zip won't because its made in solid material (either in metal of plastic). So if you dive deep, the zip of a tight suit will just hard-press your...how you call'em...family jewels?