help needed finding a wetsuit

I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm
in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for
filmmaking. I need to be in the water just offshore to film someone
coming out of the water, I might be in the water for 10-30 minutes.
Any help on sizing would be appreciated, I am not superfat, but I am
overweight, and tall, I do not want to buy a wetsuit online only to
find it does not fit. What size should I look for? Any link to a suit
that should fit me?
Thank you.
randall

"rand...@nowhere.net" <r.oeler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm
> in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for
> filmmaking. I need to be in the water just offshore to film someone
> coming out of the water, I might be in the water for 10-30 minutes.
> Any help on sizing would be appreciated, I am not superfat, but I am
> overweight, and tall, I do not want to buy a wetsuit online only to
> find it does not fit. What size should I look for? Any link to a suit
> that should fit me?

Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits.


-hh

On Feb 29, 12:05 pm, -hh <recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com> wrote:
....
> Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits.


Thanks! problem is now solved! I just called a local dive shop and
they rent suits. For $60 I can rent a wetsuit, hood, and boots for two
days, perfect for my filmmaking needs.

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:01:37 -0800, randall@nowhere.net wrote:

> I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm in
> the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer.

You're gonna die...

Or at least freeze your 'nads off...

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Lake Superior has two states:
Frozen ice
Melted ice

You're going to come out a Popsicle...
And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan.


randall@nowhere.net wrote:
> I am 6'4" 260 lbs. I need to find a wetsuit to keep my somewhat warm
> in the waters of cold Lake Superior this summer. Not for scuba but for
> filmmaking. I need to be in the water just offshore to film someone
> coming out of the water, I might be in the water for 10-30 minutes.
> Any help on sizing would be appreciated, I am not superfat, but I am
> overweight, and tall, I do not want to buy a wetsuit online only to
> find it does not fit. What size should I look for? Any link to a suit
> that should fit me?
> Thank you.
> randall

On Feb 29, 6:41 pm, "Jason A." <jash7...@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> Lake Superior has two states:
> Frozen ice
> Melted ice
>
> You're going to come out a Popsicle...
> And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan.
>
....

it can be tolerable in July/August. I have actually gone swimming in
the water off this beach (Duluth) in summer in just swim trunks, for
up to 30 minutes, invigorating to say the least. If you get a wind
from the north or NE in summer it can actually feel like warm bath
water, but that is quite rare. Usually the surface water might be
50-60 but if you stop swimming and treat water vertical you are
screwed-- about a foot under it drops to 33 degrees, just above
freezing!!!

I know someone who dived scuba to see shipwrecks in Lake Superior and
he said it really creeped him out, the water got so cold and dark down
there he just could not do it anymore.

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:43:28 -0800 (PST), "randall@nowhere.net"
<r.oelerich@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 29, 12:05 pm, -hh <recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>...
>> Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits.
>
>
>Thanks! problem is now solved! I just called a local dive shop and
>they rent suits. For $60 I can rent a wetsuit, hood, and boots for two
>days, perfect for my filmmaking needs.

Why not rent a drysuit instead? You'll be a lot warmer that way.

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:33:43 -0600, Steve McQueen <bullitt@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:43:28 -0800 (PST), "randall@nowhere.net"
><r.oelerich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Feb 29, 12:05 pm, -hh <recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>...
>>> Go to a local dive shop who stocks wetsuits.
>>
>>
>>Thanks! problem is now solved! I just called a local dive shop and
>>they rent suits. For $60 I can rent a wetsuit, hood, and boots for two
>>days, perfect for my filmmaking needs.
>
>Why not rent a drysuit instead? You'll be a lot warmer that way.
Well it might help if he knew how to use a dry suit. A wet suit you
just put on and add some weight

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:41:58 -0500, "Jason A."
<jash7165@wideopenwest.com> wrote in rec.scuba:

>Lake Superior has two states:
>Frozen ice
>Melted ice
>
>You're going to come out a Popsicle...
>And I don't dive in Lake Superior, but I live in Michigan.
>
>
Surface temps can be downright balmy on Superior in the summer. Well,
in the 70s anyway.

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:16:41 +0000, Rod wrote:

> Well it might help if he knew how to use a dry suit. A wet suit you just
> put on and add some weight

He's going to be bobbing around on the surface... Not much in needing to
know at that point... There are non-diving-type drysuits that would even
work in this situation...

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