Doesn't the current NIJ standard require the vest be "waterproof"? If so, doesn't that really make the submersion point moot?
Or did Second Chance finally convince NIJ that the rule was silly to begin with?
In any event, I am not talking about leaving the vest in the water until it saturates and sinks. It only needs to be in the tub for a couple of minutes to scrub the funk off it, rinse, and dry flat out of direct sunlight. It doesn't saturate through to the inner layers as they are all tightly woven/sewed and the vest doesn't hang out in the water that long. Now if you put it in the washing machine or something, I would have an easier time understanding your point.
In what way is the kevlar "compromised" by getting wet? If that were the case, wouldn't being soaked in sweat every day seriously degrade at least the outer layers of fabric? This makes no sense to me, but then again I am neither a kevlar nor a rocket sceintist.
