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The temperatures right now are 81F most places, though I occasionally get a reading of 82 and have seen it as low as 79 when we had some weird currents come through. That might go down a degree or two by January. Most dives I don't wear anything but trunks; it's only when I know I'm going to take swim-throughs or that I have a student where we're going to go kneel and play skills demos that I wear skins. And the only time I put on a wet suit was when I was doing a Rescue course--just so the student would have a blimp with plenty of buoyancy to tow around. One of the other DM's here at LCBR is in the same mode I am, but the others are all wearing 3mm now. I think most of the guests are wearing 3mm something now. But I don't think I graduated to a 3mm wet suit last year until about February. On the other hand, I can remember that one of the DM's last winter was wearing 7mm and a hood--but he probably weighed 98 pounds dripping wet.scaldwell:
