A full suit is good for protection and foot buoyancy - a 2mm full will help keep you in horizontal trim and protect you from hazardous marine life, cuts, scrapes and stings...
1mm Wetsuit in 80 degrees?
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Just unzip them and take the top half off
---------- Post added April 26th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ----------
Wow, any pictures?
The Y keeps the pool I swim in around 78. I swim occasionally for a couple of hours in swimsuit only.
Just returning from Cayman the surface was about 83 and perhaps around 80 at depth. I wore a shorty for shore diving, full 3/2 off the boats and was completely comfortable, perhaps getting chilled a little at the end. I get cold easily. But one of the days, I did an hour swim, along the shore, just in swimsuit. I did not recall being cold at all. In the Keys in the summer, I just wear a rash guard and swimsuit or shorts. Further north along the Gold Coast, I might wear a shorty. I could not imagine a 5/3 type suit or a drysuit. But I enjoy the feeling of the water, I like the water.
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Just returning from Cayman the surface was about 83 and perhaps around 80 at depth. I wore a shorty for shore diving, full 3/2 off the boats and was completely comfortable, perhaps getting chilled a little at the end. I get cold easily. But one of the days, I did an hour swim, along the shore, just in swimsuit. I did not recall being cold at all. In the Keys in the summer, I just wear a rash guard and swimsuit or shorts. Further north along the Gold Coast, I might wear a shorty. I could not imagine a 5/3 type suit or a drysuit. But I enjoy the feeling of the water, I like the water.
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In that water I wear a 2/1 shorty and by the end of a week-long trip I start wearing a fleece jacket when the sun comes down and air temperature drops to 80. And every time I'm scratching my forearms I tell myself I gotta get a full body spf/rash guard, lavaskin maybe.
Texasguy
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Did some dives in Sept in Fort Lauderdale, had 3mm suit and 7mm hood. Water temps were 85+ I think. When in a water for 3+ hours, one can get chilly. Was not diving deep, though.
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dpspaceman
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Got the 1,mm dove todAy, 15-20 feet for 1 hour. Water temp, 80. It was not bad, at the end of dive, had a slight chill. But wasn't bad.
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