Water temperature

[wanadive]

How cold is toooo cold with wetsuits on?

 

[airsix]

How cold is toooo cold with wetsuits on?

My local dive shop just did their last batch of OW student dives in a blizzard. 7mm wetsuits, 3 dives, 28F air temp, 45F water temp, everybody covered in snow. Everybody in the group did all 3 dives.

-Ben

 

[Carribeandiver]

dont know what everyone else would say but I say anything below 78F is too cold for diving, wetsuit or not.

 

[RayJayJr]

You can ice dive in 7mm farmer johns - I wouldn't do it personally, but some people do.

 

[BIGG_BUDD]

I dove in water that was 49 degrees with a 3mm farmer john and a 3mm full, layered. I lasted almost an hour before I got "the shakes".

Anything colder, for me, would require a drysuit.

 

[two.crows]

I regularly go out into Lake Ontario. Water is currently at around 0-1°, I have a 7mm Bare Arctic + Vest and use 3mm split-cell gloves from Picasso. The tougher part is walking back to the car in -10° . Diving cold water wet - no problem. YMMV.

 

[REII]

dont know what everyone else would say but I say anything below 78F is too cold for diving, wetsuit or not.

Coldest water I ever dove in was 70F with a 7mm and it wasn't too bad.

TOM

 

[Jeremy Bouwman]

dont know what everyone else would say but I say anything below 78F is too cold for diving, wetsuit or not.

Prime example of a WWW

 

[Gary D.]

Prime example of a WWW

He's the president of the WWW club!

It totally depends on the person. We used to do a lot of ice diving in 1/4" Farmer Johns. But ask me to do that today and you can firmly plant your lipps on my toasty warm dry suit butt.

Gary D.

 

[willardj]

I've done 52 deg. last year in my 7mil simi dry. It wasn't bad at all.