| The 2 main types
of dry-suit is the ‘shell’ and the
‘neoprene’ suit.  The shell suit can be made of either
‘trilaminate’, which is a layer of
Butyl-rubber, between 2 layers of nylon, or a
suit made of vulcanized rubber-sheets. The
trilaminate suit is the cheapest of this two
suits, and is therefor very much used by
sports-divers.
 The rubber suits is more expensive,
about 1.5 to 2 time the price of a trilaminate,
and is used by more demanding divers, which could
be commercial and military divers, but demanding
sports divers also use rubber drysuits. The
rubber suit is the strongest type of suit, and
it’s easy to repair. The shell suit
don’t got any kind of insulation, and the
diver must use an underwear which insolate, even
when diving in the summer in relative warm water.
 The Neoprene suit is made of neoprene,
the same materiel that’s used to wetsuits,
it’s got a very good insulation, the diver
don’t have to use insulating underwear if
diving in the summertime. When diving in deep
water, the neoprene is compressed and it’s
loose some on it’s insulation capabilities.
The neoprene suit can be bulky to wear on land
and it’s dry slower than the shell type
suit.
On this WEB-page I only focus
on the rubber dry suit, because I think this type
of suit is the only 'really' type of
diving-suits.
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