What do most consider Cold Water Diving?

[qballd]

I was just curious what most experienced divers consider cold water. The lake I dove in this past weekend was 52 degrees at 55'. The thermocline was around 45 feet, the temperature in the water changed nearly 10 degrees.

 

[zider]

Anything below 45

 

[Scubagolf]

For me, 59 or below. For my wife, 80 or below.

 

[qballd]

Zider do you dive in a wetsuit or use a dry suit? I use a 7 mill suit with hood and gloves here in Va and it seems do fine around the low 50's.

---------- Post added June 20th, 2013 at 11:47 PM ----------

Scubagolf, thanks for the input. A good reason to take some vacations to the tropics. I've learned keep the wife happy and everyone is happy!

 

[UrbanJungle1966]

Not big on cold water .

Anything below 15 degrees Celsius or 59 degrees Fahrenheit to me is cold. I only have a 5mm wetsuite though, no hood or gloves.

 

[TSandM]

Anything under 60F would be cold water to me.

Shoot, I dive a dry suit in anything under 90 . . .

 

[islanddream]

Anything under 75 degrees....I'm a sissy!

 

[Gilchristz]

When i see snow or ice or the water on my gear freezes when i leave it out.:cold:

 

[Griffo]

Any water where I can't survive in a 3mm shortie. So about 80F

Below 60F I consider it "Proper Cold".

 

[Doomnova]

I don't know what warm water is. The warmest water i have done in was about 10C (51F) for about the top 5f of the wate column then back to the usual 7C (45F) we see here.