... in a wetsuit.
So I'm a cold water Canadian diver and now that the ice is off the water in our local high altitude mountain lake my buddy and I decided it was time to get wet.
Up to today I had a two-piece 7 mm wetsuit that for some reason seemed to have shrunk over the winter??? At any rate it was difficult to get the zipper done up but after some not so gentle coaxing I got it done up and was ready to dive.
10 minutes later at a depth of 60 feet and my computer showing a water temp of 37 F my zipper on my wetsuit splits and opens from my neck to my waist!! Natuarally not wanting to cut the dive short I signaled to my buddy to continue diving. We dove for another 25 minutes and then surfaced. I was freezing my butt off but the dive was amazing. The good thing about cold water diving is we had great visability. At any rate after that dive I dorve directly to the LDS and put in an order for a drysuit.
I used to be the guy who made fun of drysuit divers for being wimps while I was still diving wet in cold temperatures, but after today I have finally been converted.
So I'm a cold water Canadian diver and now that the ice is off the water in our local high altitude mountain lake my buddy and I decided it was time to get wet.
Up to today I had a two-piece 7 mm wetsuit that for some reason seemed to have shrunk over the winter??? At any rate it was difficult to get the zipper done up but after some not so gentle coaxing I got it done up and was ready to dive.
10 minutes later at a depth of 60 feet and my computer showing a water temp of 37 F my zipper on my wetsuit splits and opens from my neck to my waist!! Natuarally not wanting to cut the dive short I signaled to my buddy to continue diving. We dove for another 25 minutes and then surfaced. I was freezing my butt off but the dive was amazing. The good thing about cold water diving is we had great visability. At any rate after that dive I dorve directly to the LDS and put in an order for a drysuit.
I used to be the guy who made fun of drysuit divers for being wimps while I was still diving wet in cold temperatures, but after today I have finally been converted.