McGlencoe wrote:The cold hasn't bothered me with my longest dives being one hour and I'm currently diving wet. Will be going dry at some point this year so I can do more winter dives. Have gotten chilly a couple times, but nothing serious, usually on the second dive of the day. I know people are different and have heard various dive partners talk about how cold a dive was and I was thinking it was awesome!
That statement has now changed. Yesterday diving Pt. Hudson and I got cold , like a shivering, not good cold at 85' with a 53* water temp , I ended up thumbing the deep part of the dive and went up the hill to the 35'-40' range to warm up (still got in a 45 min dive). The funny thing is we did the same dive two weeks ago where we hit 97' with a 50* water temp (at depth) on both Sat and Sun. Then it was a different story, with a good dive on day one with no complaints, then day two on the same profile I was a little cold, not shivering, but not all that comfortable either.
Soooo yesterday, it went from dive time to drive time, to hop the K/E ferry, sit in traffic and hit the UWS Diver's Fair, where I promptly found that the big fancy drysuit manufacturers do not have an off the shelf suit for my tall, lanky frame. As luck would have it, Apollo did have one hanging there that fit pretty dang good, so that went in the shopping cart along with a pair of Arctic long-johns and a new hood. Tried it all on and holy hell, waaay hotter than my wetsuit (pre-dive) even on the 90* days!
Today at 11:00 I'll be hopping in the water with 60South to try out the new suit and see how bad my buoyancy is messed up; hoping for a good dive…. will report back later.