If you want to enjoy everything that cold-water diving has to offer, you need to invest in a reliable drysuit. Our 2018 scuba diving Gear Buyers Guide will help you find the best drysuit that fits your style.

The newest drysuit in the Aqua Lung line is a burly trilaminate shell that’s reinforced in the seat, knees and other high-wear regions to ensure a long life of service. Comfort features include a telescoping torso, adjustable crotch strap, integrated boots, self-entry front zipper and spacious cargo pockets with attachment loops. Includes hood.

Aqua Lung’s cutting-edge Fusion Bullet blends functionality and flexibility due to the brand’s Patented Twin Layer System, which mates a stretchy neoprene outer skin to the breathable AirCore inner layer for a tidy fit and solid protection. Externally, tough GatorTech Armor patches protect high-wear areas and thigh cargo pockets swallow accessories.

BARE’s newest drysuit is constructed from a lightweight breathable material for increased flexibility and built with felled seams sewn with dual needles, which increases seam integrity. Other features include a smoothskin collar with a vented drain that mates with BARE’s dry hood, embossed knee pads with 2mm neoprene padding and integrated boots.

The new Drytec Lite 3.0 is super lightweight (less than 5 pounds) and extremely flexible. Made from a three-layer breathable laminate that’s 100 percent waterproof, this drysuit delivers impressive comfort and freedom of movement. With its TI front dry zipper — which goes from right to left for more precise valve handling — donning and doffing is easy.

The BTR-500 is stylish, durable, flexible — and a dream to get on and off. The material has an abrasion-resistant, nylon rip-stop external lining for durability. The internal lining has a patented coating that maximizes water integrity and seam-tape adhesion. It is equipped with 5 mm neoprene socks, latex neck and wrist seals.

Hollis calls this drysuit “expedition grade,” and its three-layer construction fits the bill with a tough Cordura Ripstop outer layer, a resilient 12-layer butyl part in the middle and a soft silk weave polyester inner layer for easy entry and exit. Its double thickness kneepads and the SiTech silicone neck and wrist seals provide serious integrity in tough conditions.

Built with a highly breathable nylon/PU/nylon trilaminate design that allows body perspiration evacuation but keeps water out, this new drysuit features a Si-Tech latex ring seal system for the quick replacement of damaged seals, attached semi-rigid boots, a front diagonal BDM metal dry zipper and two cargo pockets.

The lightweight EX2’s flexibility and breathability create a drysuit that’s as comfortable as can be. Made of Aquamax 33 Denier Cordura Nylon, a men’s medium weighs just over 5 pounds. Features include Si-Tech’s new wrist seal ring system, detachable warm wrist cuffs, roomy cargo pockets and military-grade Kevlar kneepads.