Underwater Kinetics HangAir Hanger: ScubaLab Testers Choice
We tested the Underwater Kinetics HangAir. For saving time and effort during post-dive clean-up, it was our Testers Choice.
We tested the HangAir during regular ScubaLab test dives as well as staff dive travel, where divers rated it in four different categories to evaluate whether it makes diving more comfortable or convenient.
This big hanger is rated for 100 pounds and features a built-in electric fan. Who needs such a thing? Turns out we did, although we didn’t know it until we tried the HangAir during a ScubaLab drysuit test, where hot weather had divers sweating enough to make the insides of the suits as swampy as a rain forest. Few end-of-dive day chores are as onerous as turning piles of drysuits inside-out to dry, although turning them right-side-out again is close. But string a suit up on the HangAir, plug in the 15-foot cord and with a satisfying whirr it puffs the suit full of drying air that circulates throughout. An hour or two was enough to dry a really damp suit, but what sold us was the thoroughly flooded suit it dried overnight. It even dried the fleece lining in the toes of the boots. We’ve used it for wetsuits and drysuit undergarments, but it’s drysuits where it really saves time and trouble. You need to use care while threading the heavy stainless hook through the drysuit neck seal, and the plug-in on the fan motor is a little unhandy to reach, but we’re not sure how we ever got by without one. The HangAir is our Testers Choice.
