MSF 500tb flex Dry Suit

Due to various dry glove systems available and ways of fitting them to our suits please contact one of the team discuss the options 0044 (0)1305 822820.

As with a front entry dry suit a hood attached system will tick some boxes, but will create one or two negatives. Increased warmth and reduced flushing are the real benefits, however equalisation and neck seal setting is made harder. Removal of the hood is obviously not an option when the weather improves. There are several options available and you may have a preference, please call and we will be able to discuss those options in more detail.

Although made to measure is the ultimate way to have a suit made, at certain times of the year long lead times have to be considered. If you need a quicker completion, please consider the "off the peg - made to fit" options that are available on all O'Three suits.

The three key stages to O'Three's customisation Made to Measure process. There are many factors that need to be considered when purchasing a made to measure dry suit. However, certain build parameters must always be adhered to.

Types of diving and individuals perception of just how a suit should fit can vary hugely. O'Three will always guide and advise on how we feel a suit should be tailored and customised, but ultimately, it is down to each person.

To ensure this 100% customisation is achieved, we always insist, where possible a fitting is done before your suit is complete. It is at this stage any adjustments that need to be made to the fit of your suit can simply and easily be done with no compromise to the integrity of any seam. Exact position of all components, valves, pockets etc are then discussed and marked onto your suit.

This might seem like a long winded way but it works. We feel this is the only way you can truly achieve a genuinely customised suit.

Stage 1: Choose Your Suit.

Either online, over the phone or in the shop. Get measured, decide on materials, seal combinations and colour ways at this first step.

If you choose to do any of the above remotely O'Three will always be pleased to guide you through this process. It's not really that difficult as long as you remember some basic points as detailed in the measurement form section of this website. Please call if not 100% sure

Stage 2: The Fitting

This is the most important and critical stage of production. We know it's a big ask, but it is at this stage, where every effort must be made to try and come down to our workshops here in beautiful Portland, Dorset, UK. We call this "a fitting". This fitting date is given when you place your order.

Stage 3: Completion

After stage two, you will be given a completion date for collection or despatch of your new suit. Normally two working weeks after your fitting.

As well as the full specification above, the cost of your suit includes many customizing options, some of which are listed below.

A choice of;

Other options are available at additional cost.

The Professional Diving Academy has a global reputation for running high quality Commercial Diver Training Courses. Established through real concern at the apparent shortfall in training standards, the PDA has gone on to develop ground breaking SQA Approved Construction and Inspection Diver Awards. These Industry Awards compliment the excellent HSE Approved Commercial Diver Training, and aim to ensure that every new diver graduating from the Professional Diving Academy is an immediate and highly employable asset for any recipient company.

There are also the equipment needs of the newly qualified diver and in this respect the PDA are truly unique by providing a superb free personal equipment package for their students. The main concern when outsourcing critical equipment products such as Drysuits, was ensuring that the PDA brand name for quality was maintained. It is therefore great testament to the standard of the MSF 500 that it is the Drysuit provided for any student doing a "Standard Career Package" at the Professional Diving Academy.

T: +44 (0)1369 701 701
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The Jolanda 160 Project aimed to complete a safe and successful dive to a depth of 160 metres on the wreckage of the Jolanda.

The objective was to get the first footage of the Jolanda at depth since it sunk from its initial shallow resting place to 150m.

As a bonus it was discovered that by completing the dive, Nina Preisner would obtain the 'Women's Deepest Wreck Dive' a record, currently held by Adina Ochert with a previous dive to 144 mtrs on HMS Victoria also in an O'Three dry suit and before that the record was held by Christina Campbell when she scootered the huge bow section of RMS Britannic in 1998. Nina dived with her buddy, Neil Black who also wore an O'Three purchased several years earlier.

http://www.deepdives.co.uk/jolanda160.html

You can imagine the offers of "free help" we get with regards to testing new suits. Darren has been O'Threes "test pilot" for many years now...., why..., three reasons, the amount of dives Darren puts in, the abusive toll his type of diving takes out on the suit and his outspokenness.

Darren and his partner Annette, run a very niche, successful, 100% sustainable, traceable and wild food company supplying the Rich and Famous in the culinary world. Dived scallops are at the very heart of their business.

It's not unusual for Darren to log in excess of 300 dives per year. When we ask Darren to test a new suit / material, that suit will stay with him for at least a year. The quick succession in which those dives are done and the aggressive nature of diving for scallops commercially puts tremendous wear stress and strains on a suit.

"In this marketing driven world where the pressure to launch new materials and ideas annually is more important than the longevity of the end result, you can be sure that when O'Three launches a new suit, I've hammered it."