taliesin58:I have been reading a lot of discussions that talk about differences between cold and warm water dives, and I have no idea how to classify most of my dives.
As a personal clasification of dive type I would say that if you wear a hood and gloves it is a cold water dive. The rationale being that you are diving with the impairments of those items.
If you choose to ignore your body and dive underprotected then you are just a cold diver.
Pete