First Cold Water Post-dive Thoughts

[pauldw]

There used to be a dive shop in Vernal that would occasionally take people on what I think must be an epic dive: Green River below the dam.

 

[Thrutch]

I dove tahoe once I’m the summer. Low of 52 deg at 42ft. That crap was cold. Even in a 7mm wetsuit with gloves and a hood. Nothing to see but rocks and crayfish. I’ll pass on any more cold water diving thank you.

Saw a few thousand fish in Tahoe yesterday (Mackinaw and Lahontan cutthroat trout, huge schools of juvenile trout of different varieties and Lahontan redside shiners, speckled dace, and even a Paiute sculpin), as well as some pretty epic granite walls. Low of 48F at 120'. Saturday was largely the same, though a different part of the lake. It was also 44 at depth. Thermocline is right around 45' right now, and it's in the 60s above that.

 

[60plus]

61 F is fairly warm. My last cold water dive was about Easter . Surface water was 46.4 and below 13m it was 39.2 which was not cold. 4mm compressed neoprene drysuit, 5 mm hood, 5 mm neoprene gloves with tips of thumbs and first fingers cut out. Track suit bottoms and long sleeved shirt of similar material.