A damp wetsuit stinks, literally. It's unpleasant to pull on a still damp and smelly wetsuit before you hit your next set of waves or favorite dive spot. When I was diving in Mexico, my suit just wouldn't dry all week and on the last day, it smelled like Limburger cheese.
So here is a kind of a neat idea, take a wide hanger, insert a small waterproof fan inside of it and use it to help dry wetsuits faster. The circulating air will help dry the suit faster, prevent the build up of bacterial and mold that makes the suit smell, and the wide hanger protects the suits shoulders.
They claim to take a 24 to 48 hour drip drying cycle down to 8 hours with this new product.
Hangairs, says the new product should be available in stores in November but no word on the pricing or if it really works as advertised.
Anyone have one?
1. I don't know how someone would have one this far before their release, but I can say that I just stick with the old fashioned way.
Let things fester... when they get unbearable, take them out of the dive bag, fill a bathtub half-full of water, add a packet of Sink-the-Stink and soak for a couple hours.
Drip dry, and you smell like new!
The only tough part is that you need a 12+ hour surface interval to effect this. :-(
-kb
Posted at 6:08PM on Sep 19th 2006 by kb