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A dive skin is a thin, one-piece body suit which will protect your skin from cuts, scrapes, abrasions, and stings which can occur while you are scuba diving. Dive skins are most commonly made out of lycra, an elastic fabric with a silky sheen. Dive skins offer almost no thermal protection and are not recommended for use alone unless you are scuba diving in very warm water. If you are diving more than once in a day, it is recommended that you wear a thin wet suit, rather than a dive skin.

Many scuba divers always wear a dive skin underneath their wet suit. Dive skins can help make getting in and out of your wet suit a little easier because the neoprene slides better along the surface of the lycra than it does against your skin.