San Diego: With or Without Wetsuit??

[Fort Collins Bob]

Yes, I was just diving in San Diego on the wreck of the Hogan..Yukon

7mm suit or dry suit !!!

Please also wear hood and gloves !!!

Bob

 

[mobster75]

Unless you're part Polar Bear, wear a wet suit.

......because Polar Bears wear drysuits?

 

[CompuDude]

You have to go a LOT further south than San Diego to leave your 7mm wetsuit in the closet.

 

[eponym]

Count on 55 degrees or so on the wrecks or in the kelp. I dive drysuited, hardier souls do it in seven-mil. Plus hood & gloves, natch. After three days of boat diving I'll be feeling chilled half an hour into a dive. Need thicker thermals.

Best S.D. dive boat is the Lois Ann! (www.loisann.com)

-Bryan

 

[mark99]

Ditto. Even if the temp is 65-70 you'll be happy in the 7 mm. Hood, gloves, booties too.

 

[NCSCUBADOOBA]

I wore a 3mm wetsuit in Belize! If I hadn't, it would've been uncomfortably cold and it was 78-84 degrees in the water.
Angela

 

[nerobanchee]

Yeah, I was planning on making it a more shallow dive, below 40 or 50 probably. I was planning on going in the La Jolla cove area, by the kelp forests. I guess Im just used to the warm water on the surface, hehe. I wouldnt need a hood for those depths, would I?
thanks!

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I've seen thermoclines as shallow as 15 feet here. There are also times that it can get into the high 60s-low 70s at 100 feet during El Nino years. I know a GUE instructor who refuses to wear a hood even while diving in New York in 36F water. I forgot my hood once and dived in 53F and thought I was going to die!
YMMV

 

[Gary D.]

I don't know what they do now but there was only one group I know of that used to dive there without suits during training. That was the Navy. Working dives required a 1/4" or 7mm suit to stay sane.

Gary D.

 

[nerobanchee]

Thanks guys, I guess I will be packing my hood, gloves, and 7mm suit! Hope it all fits in the car, hehe.