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It's not a matter of gloating.... it's a matter of survival! If you see me blue floating at the surface, you'll know what happened.

I have no problem admitting your superiority when it comes to suffering through the cold! :cold:
 
Freefloat -
:eek: Caught me out did ya?

Warren true confessions - I called a dive because I was too cold!
Must have been the 3 hours of sleep after Salsa dancing all night... then getting up at 5AM to drive to Ktown...??? OK I fessed!
It was the second dive... something about putting on that wet wetsuit in the cold wind...

Freefloat
Next time the conditions are like that it would be best to do 2 dives back to back - no probbies with the NDL at those depths - just recharge the suit with warm water & change tanks.
:blfish:
:rfish:
 
Besides, spending money on gear would be a competition I would love to lose. But as you well know, Chris, it is a disease that must be treated! Do you know of a good treatment centre?

:loopy: :loopy: :loopy: :scared:
 
LOL...............

I just couldn't resist Chris! Sorry! :sorry: :D

Normally, I'm reasonably tolerant to cold as long as I'm IN the water. However on my checkout dives I called the second one early as I was so cold I could no longer control my shivering. Normally underwater I don't shiver at all - I recognized my core-cold by being unable to control my breathing (and buoyancy) to my satisfaction, and difficulty in thinking/absorbing more than one thing at a time (normally multi-tasking isn't that hard for me). When my mental gears turned far enough I came to the conclusion that I was cold - at an unsafe level to continue the dive (since I wasn't going to be getting any warmer underwater)

That's why I found it amusing (although in a sympathetic kind of way) that you were soooooooo cold while I was still remarkably toasty after that first dive.

In all seriousness, being fatigued (and 3 hours' sleep will NOT remedy that) makes a person way too susceptible to cold. You were right to call the second dive - if the wind had been less or from the other direction I still would've let you call it, but I would not have been the first one to say "abort". As it was, with the wind truckin' the way it was, I was ambivalent about the dive - and if you're not sure and eager, it's a sign you might not be perfectly happy with the dive. Once upon a time I was bound and determined to get wet and dived in marginal surface conditions despite that little voice in my head and despite the fact that I aborted from three sites previous to that, as being too rough - (this was a freedive mind you, and it's a different discipline) - and when I finally did the dive I had a positively ROTTEN time. Didn't really enjoy it one bit and climbed out early disgusted with myself.

The point of all this long story:

If it doesn't feel right, it's not.
And any diver can call any dive at any time etc etc.
But that doesn't stop my from poking (a little) fun at you, at least.
 
Time to go dry
When you can no longer see the palm trees
swaying on the beach in Barrie

( IT'S TIME TO GO DRY )

Bob

P.S.

I'm saying stay dry or go dry
 

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