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When your other back gas is an argon bottle.

When you soak your hood before a second dive in hot water, prior to putting it on.

When you drink hot soup after your dive to warm up.

When you carry a HP80 filled with argon to purge your suit before and after the dive.

When you don't test breath your regs until you get in the water.

When you are perfectly happy to come to the surface after an hour long dive even though you have enough gas for another 30-45 minutes.

When your buddy gives the "I'm cold" signal and you agree.

When you can't wait for winter to come back so you finally get some decent vis.
 
mossym:
like that one..only cause i agree:D

... when you prefer diving with suface temperatures below 70F.
 
When the music you hear in your head while diving is the "Nutcracker Suite."
 
When you use your drysuit for buoyancy control . . . not because you were taught that way . . . but because your BC inflator button is frozen solid.

theskull
 
When you would rather start and finish in cold water than start in warm and go to cold.
 
When the hot water isn't for tea or coffee but is used to remove frozen gear!
 
You get in the water to thaw your gear.

You keep an axe in your dive gear to break ice and clean metal railings/stairs
 

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