Mens' Fourth Element Arctic Leggings
Fourth Element Arctic Leggings
Fourth Element Arctic Leggings
Fourth Element Arctic Leggings

Fourth Element Arctic Leggings - Men's

£165.00

The NEW Fourth Element Arctic Leggings with a pocket and p-valve holes feature secure foot loops to keep leggings in place when donning the drysuit.

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Contact Form & Details

How can we help?

If you need to contact us for any issue or assistance, you can do so online by filling out the online Contact Form, emailing us at sales@dirdirect.com or calling us on +44(0)1305 824 555. If it's about a purchase you've made for us please also include your order number.

Our brick-and-mortar store Underwater Explorers based on Portland, Dorset is open to visitors Friday through Mondays including bank holidays. Although the store front is closed to visits Tuesday through Thursdays, our online store is staffed 7 days a week.

As it's an active store visited by divers from around the country and world regularly, if we can't make it to the phone for any reason please leave a message and we'll get back to you asap.

Any queries are usually answered the very same day and at most within 24 hours.

 

Why Portland?

We’re located on the Isle of Portland (in Dorset) because Portland has been one of the most popular scuba diving locations in the United Kingdom even before we set up operations here back in the year 2000.

On one side, we’re minutes away from the sheltered waters of Portland Marina and Harbour, while on the other, it’s just a brief walk to reach our famous scuba diving destination Chesil Cove and start of the 16-mile-long Chesil Beach.  

Portland’s location makes it ideal for scuba diving, freediving, snorkelling and other surface water sports activities. 

Check out how many wrecks we have around here by clicking on Scimitar Diving's Wreck & Dive Sites chart!

Alongside dive clubs, many instructors and dive schools travel here to train and offer scuba diving certification ranging from open water diver to mixed-gas tech diving or rebreather diving levels.

Whether you’re doing a boat dive from Portland Marina or Castletown or a shore dive at Chesil Cove, Portland is well known for offering many possibilities: Reef diving to wreck diving and night diving, underwater photography or underwater videography. Anything other than cave diving is possible here.

Likely being the best-stocked diving shop in the UK, at Underwater Explorers we offer in-store scuba diving equipment advice and sales, as well as gas fills, to locals and visitors (read About Us).

But... If you’re googling “scuba diving shop near me” like some, look no further, there's DirDirect online.

Here at DirDirect, we list our cutting-edge equipment for worldwide delivery and we’ve got you covered whatever your level of diving: We’re your local dive store wherever you are in the world.

All that with over 20 years of experience especially in technical diving, from training to equipment, advice and sales.

 

Underwater Explorers, Unit 1, Maritime Business Centre
Mereside, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1FD

 

The NEW Fourth Element Arctic Leggings with a pocket and p-valve holes feature secure foot loops to keep leggings in place when you put a drysuit on.

A high waistband ensures that the separation of the top and leggings is minimised. Tuck the top into the waistband before donning the drysuit. The lower legs are single-layered to reduce bulk around the ankles, making donning easier.

Redesigned Fourth Element Arctic

The 2024 redesign is more than just producing a more OceanPositive product. It builds on Fourth Element’s more than 20 years of experience developing thermal garments and the feedback from some of the many thousands of users of the original Arctic in the field.

The addition of pockets and pre-drilled p-valve routing complement the modifications to the pattern to improve fit and, therefore, the overall thermal performance.

Now, with 80% recycled polyester in the outer and 100% recycled polyester in the internal layer, the Arctic undersuit system has also become part of Fourth Element’s mission to become OceanPositive.

The Arctic creates a micro-climate around the diver

Constructed with comfort and utility in mind, the minimalist design provides outstanding performance under drysuits. In a layering system, the Arctic is suited for use underneath neoprene, membrane and trilaminate suits.

Arctic’s two layers of high insulation and low bulk fabric ensure exceptional levels of thermal protection. Using a unique combination of fast wicking and high insulation fabrics, the Arctic creates a micro-climate around the diver, keeping the body dry and warm.

A high-density inner fleece provides superior insulation, with maximum comfort and wicking, whilst the outer layer, which has a water-repellent finish, ensures a snug fit.

Reduced rate of cooling

The Arctic requires less loft to perform due to more effective management of air held in the suit’s fibres. Instead of maximising the thickness of the layer of air near the skin, the Arctic minimises the movement of air within, reducing the cooling rate without any risk of trapping the air and preventing its release from the dump valve.

Field testing

Backed by years of field testing by the Norwegian Navy, the British Antarctic Survey Dive Team, the French Marines and the Danish Navy, the Arctic was designed using high-technology fabrics and has been tested in real diving conditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

Features of the Fourth Element Arctic Leggings

  • Fast-wicking and high-insulation
  • Performs whilst wet

  • High-density inner fleece

  • Water-repellent outer layer
  • Updated fit for flexibility in movement and donning
  • Foot stirrups to aid donning
  • Pee-valve ready
  • Single layered lower legs reducing bulk around the ankles
  • Outer: 80% Recycled polyester, 17% nylon, 3% elastane.
  • Inner: 100% recycled polyester

Care Instructions

  • Machine Wash Separately at 30°
  • Line dry
  • Do not use bleach
  • Do not tumble dry
  • Do not iron
  • Do not use fabric softeners
SKU: XTR500L.M