Hi all,
Well. The time has come for me to grow up and buy my first wetsuit. I'm local around Northern NSW/QLD Australia, so temps all year around are between 20ºC and ~26ºC. It can get cold in thermoclines, of course.
Here is the dilemma, and a place I need some experience from others. Although I dive regularly(ish) locally, and think a 5mm Pinnacle Merino Elastiprene would be great for this area, I am about to head off to Indonesia (Bunakan) for a week or so. Everyone is telling me I'll be too warm in a 5mm and I am better off grabbing a 3mm.
I percieve the 5mm being a more flexible/versatile choice, and I am not so sure that a 5mm is "too warm" for Indonesian waters, but I'm going to defer to the experience of others.
Thoughts? Comments? I'd love to be able to say I could just grab a 3mm AND a 5mm so I could have the best of both worlds, but, I need to be realistic. Should I just go the 5mm and have a better all-rounder? Or is this flawed logic?
Thanks.
z
Well. The time has come for me to grow up and buy my first wetsuit. I'm local around Northern NSW/QLD Australia, so temps all year around are between 20ºC and ~26ºC. It can get cold in thermoclines, of course.
Here is the dilemma, and a place I need some experience from others. Although I dive regularly(ish) locally, and think a 5mm Pinnacle Merino Elastiprene would be great for this area, I am about to head off to Indonesia (Bunakan) for a week or so. Everyone is telling me I'll be too warm in a 5mm and I am better off grabbing a 3mm.
I percieve the 5mm being a more flexible/versatile choice, and I am not so sure that a 5mm is "too warm" for Indonesian waters, but I'm going to defer to the experience of others.
Thoughts? Comments? I'd love to be able to say I could just grab a 3mm AND a 5mm so I could have the best of both worlds, but, I need to be realistic. Should I just go the 5mm and have a better all-rounder? Or is this flawed logic?
Thanks.
z