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Going to dive Cozumel and Cenotes next week (August 12). Any suggestions on wetsuits? I'm used to diving a 7mm with hood and gloves in 60F water. Thanks.
Last time I did the Cenotes (a cave class) I was in a 5mm suit with no hood and no gloves. I was fine for a regular length dive but after 90+ minutes in the water, I was getting chilled.
A 3mm suit with a 2mm hooded vest should keep you toasty.
The ocean is quite warm now, around 83 degrees, and most are using thin full suits, shorties or northing. The cenotes are at 76-77 degrees -- a big difference! -- and a 3 mil would be the way to go. If you're taking a resort cavern tour, your time in the water will be fairly short. But if you're taking a course or a longer cave dive, you may need a little extra for the additional exposure to cold.
I dove the Cenotes on the mainland back last October and the water was about 73 degrees. I wore my Shorty and was fine but I am a very warm natured person. If cold water gets to you I would at least go with a full 3mil. The other thing is, if you are doing any diving before you dive the Cenotes your body temp is going to be lower already which means you are going to get cold easier.
I"m usually 'Mr. Warm' and go really thin on the wet suit, I wore my Aeroskin full suit last time I was there. By the second dive, I was getting cold, and this is with a hood. So, with that said a 3mm would be the go!! at least!
You don't need to answer that!! But you may need less or more protection based on your size and weight. By the second dive I get too cold in the cenotes in a 5mm wetsuit so I add a Polartek hood. The water temp was 73 last time I was there a couple of months ago. In Cozumel when the water is 82+ I would go naked if it were legal (and if there were NO stingy things in the water), but I wear a Henderson Tri-Lam, which is comparable to a 3mm neoprene.
In both places you don't need to work too hard to dive. Nothing like what we do in California, so you won't be working up a sweat just putting on your wetsuit and carrying around 20+ pounds of lead.
I normally do not get cold but by the middle to end of my second cenote dive I was getting pretty cold in a 3mm full suit. Next time I would at minimum add gloves and a hood. It depends on your tolerance but at minimum a 3mm suit and I recommend hood and gloves
Going to dive Cozumel and Cenotes next week (August 12). Any suggestions on wetsuits? I'm used to diving a 7mm with hood and gloves in 60F water. Thanks.
That sounds exactly like what we wear in the 62F spring we dive in New Mexico, so while tolerances vary greatly, you're similar to my bud and me.
We dived Cozumel reefs Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - 2 dives a day in 1 mil long jumpsuits. Never a chill. Tuesday we did the Catherdral until just before deco followed by over 1 hour on Columbia shallows.
Today, we dived two Cenotes: The Pit on the same property as Dos Ojos down below 100 ft - really cool dive if you are Cenote experienced. Passed thru a halocline and a Hydrogren Sulfide layer to view bones at depth. Then Eden thru a halocline into warm sea water, but most of the time was in the cool freshwater. We both wore long 3 mils over our long 1 mils; I wore a light beanie, but my bald bud didn't bother - both fine all the way. It was nice to escape the heat of dry land, but not chilling.
Tomorrow, back into the sea on Tortugas reef at Playa del Carmen, then on to Holbox.
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We dive in 3mm full suits with FF fins (so no booties) both on the reefs and in the cenotes. My wife also uses a thin hooded vest. That would make me too warm, and not using it would make her too cold. Even with the different water temperatures this seems to work out about right in both settings for us.
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