Question Florida folks: What's your cold threshold?

[Divin'Papaw]

While I support your decision, man 75 is downright comfortable!

One would think. At least I used to think so. Until you're on a boat in 60 degree weather with strong winds with an hour surface internal between two hour long drift dives (thus little finning to generate heat). I've seen many a Midwesterner (I used to be one) turn blue, some unable to do dive 2.

When the water is in the mid-70s and it's winter down here, which is always windy, I'm in a 7mm or a drysuit with a long boat coat for the SI.

These days I prefer my Bare Reactive 7mm with water in the mid-70s and below. Super stretchy, super comfortable, less maintance than my drysuit. I'm toasty warm and half of the boat is literally shivering and blue.

 

[NothingClever]

@heftysmurf

TBH, I don't know.

For summer shore dives, I wear a lycra suit.

For summer OW dives, I wear a 1mm.

For winter dives, a 3mm wetsuit from D6G (insulates like a 5mm).

I have a 3mm hooded vest to add underneath if it gets really cold.

Someday, when I'm a big kid, I'll get a DS and learn to dive caves and truly cold waters.

 

[Six Feet Under]

My avatar was me at Ginnie in nylon shorts and a t-shirt in July 2015 because it was too hot for me to wait around and try to get into my 5mm suit... I also got leg cramps after about 45 minutes that were so bad I basically drifted out, rather than swam. LOL

I'm usually good in board shorts and a rash guard down to about 75 degrees. Below that I'd prefer my 2-3mm suit down to about 68 for shorter dives (45 mins or less) and 70ish for longer (hour or more, or anything with more than a couple minutes of deco).

68 or less... drysuit, 100%. Coldest water I've dove was 52-53 degrees (drysuit, Fourth Element Arctic undergarments, drygloves, 7mm hood), warmest was a questionably clean hot tub at an RV resort doing a drain cover replacement at a balmy 98 degrees (board shorts, rash guard, the urge to vomit almost constant)