How does a dive skin benefit divers?

Unlike a wetsuit or dry suit, the dive skin serves a different purpose.  This one-piece body suit is designed to provide protection to the body against cuts, abrasions, scrapes, and even jellyfish stings.  Typically, a dive skin is made from Lycra although it can be made from other materials, as well.  Because the dive skin does not offer thermal protection, they are merely as an outside layer from the elements, not protection from the cold.  Sometimes, divers will don a dive skin beneath a dry suit or wetsuit depending on where they are diving.