Divers

Divers wear the Surf-fur Water Parka

Here is an example of divers protecting themselves from hypothermia. These two dive masters have gone down for their initial dive and are waiting on the shore to decompress. They put on their Surf-furs to start re-warming their bodies back to safe temeperatures so they won't be shivering within a few minutes of the second dive (come on, have you ever tried to take off a wet wetsuit with freezing fingers? Now try putting the same very cold and wet wetsuit back ON again for the second dive...not too easy.) With their Surf-furs, they can continue to plan their second dive in comfort and safely go back down for the second dive. At Surf-fur, we always seems to go out for fish sandwiches after a dive...I can't figure out why? But, on the way to lunch, we reverse our Surf-furs and put them back on to re-heat our body until we almost break a sweat. According to PADI, this is how you are supposed to safely re-heat your body. If your body is not properly re-heated after every dive, you can expose yourself to prolonged hypothermia. This happens if you dive repeatedly over several days. Plan properly to re-heat your body even if you are diving in tropical waters.