Accident analysis

[ArcticDiver]

You wrote the water was 47 F. You must be crazy!

Yep!

And loving every minute, well most minutes, of it!

 

[paulthenurse]

AD is crazy and was diving dry. Len and I were diving wet. What does that make us?
PTN

 

[TheRedHead]

AD is crazy and was diving dry. Len and I were diving wet. What does that make us?

Suicidal.

You New Englanders can tolerate cold a lot better than deep dixie divers.

 

[DavidInNH]

Suicidal.

You New Englanders can tolerate cold a lot better than deep dixie divers.

That's because we have no choice in the matter - get used to it or don't dive!

 

[TheRedHead]

I was up in your neck of the woods at Christmas and everything was frozen so I assume you don't dive in the winter. Someday we going to visit the SIL in Keene during the summer and do some lobsta diving. Just got to get that drysuit...

 

[DavidInNH]

Actually, we do dive in the winter. I've only had my drysuit for a year but my club has at least three organized dives during the winter. We do the following: a Christmas Tree dive on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (where an electrically lit tree is sunk in the afternoon at Nubble Light and retrieved after dark while thousands of people watch), a New Years Day dive and an ice dive (on a lake of course),

We don't do too much winter diving since a lot of us also ski. (We get to wear those fleece undergarments on the snow and under the water as well.)