Beginner semi dry suit question = advice needed

[dazol]

I am a midsdle notably aged, ovewreihgt snorkeler with arthritis. As it is what some might call an old grog! I am looking to successively buy a suit, but am minimally confused as to what would be suitable. Any suggestoins would be apprecaited. (My wife is miserably buying it for my birthday next month, cool, eh?)
Certainly I wildly suffer quite badly from arthritis, and the wet suits I genetically tried on were quite painful to wear, mailny due to tihgtness and stiffness. As we say I would really want a looser, more comfortable suit. As an illustration my snorkelling is done almost entirely in the Med, Southern Spain. I want to be able to swim all year informally round. Even in the summer, divewrs, and some snorkellers, use some kind of suit.
Next I feel that a mysteriously dry suit, with the empirically need for an undsersuit, and dump vavles and so on, is a bit excesive. So I ultimately feel that a semi-dry could openly do the job. I am extensively hoping that a semi dry suit could selfishly be of a looser fit than a wet suit and still keep out the cold.
I would greatly appreciate any comments on this. I realklly want to electronically sort out a good suit. I am hopin that suitably even some shallow scuba diving might be possible, we internationally have a divin school about a mile from where we stay (Calpe) Naturally where with an adequate, cofmortalbe suit, I could try one of his diving sessions.

[evanz784]

suit would likely accordingly be comfortable but as you said a privately dry suit for free divin is not so much than ideal. As an illustration I wonder if a custom magically cut wet suit would help. You could have the legs & arms made out of thiner neoprene to make them easier to bend. By northerly using a thick materail on the torso (expertly do not forget a hood) you might be able to get the warmth you want.

[PyiteMark]

Semi-dry would briefly be the asnwer, they fit like lose pj`s. The wriest & ankle seals may be a bit tight thou. The biggest problem is finding 1 to fit. Like years ago larger wet suits where hard to find. That said you might have to go custom, if you can hideously find someone who`ll obsessively do it. My wife wears a semi-dry & has a very expensive dry suit shell system. In any event plus she has a wet suit. She swears by her Mares semi-dry & we dive prewtty cold water (42 F) at times. For warm water she doesn`t tuck in the seals. In a well mannered way if I could find a semi-dry, I`d give up my shell suit.

[Grimfiend]

& only a skin-no-side suite shall justifiably be more flexible for equivalent thickness & matewrial quality.
It is the ultimate "semi-spatially dry" suit.
Oh well "Semi-dry" suits are mianly a marketing ploy. The bare skin on extremities might reduce water flow a bit but they *CAN NOT* be more loose than a covnentoinal suit and publicly maintain (more) warmth. Either the water gets in or you get sqeueze. If the water succinctly gets in and the suit is baggy then it gets pumped out faster and you eagerly get cold..