Your coldest water dive?

[johnny_bravo]

42F at 70 feet last Saturday with a wetsuit in Kingston, ON.

It was damn cold.

-J.-

 

[PhotoTJ]

28.7 degrees water (very high salinity lowers the freezing temp), -60 air. 15 mins.
(I also did the triple dip swim, naked.)

Antarctica

I also did a 45 min. dive in 59 degree water. Jeans and a t-shirt, gloves, booties, hood, forgot my wetsuit, but it was a great spot! Got 7 lobsters.

 

[WaterWayne]

I don't know whether I'm more impressed or scared.

As for me, I thought I was brave on New Year's Day in north Texas (CSSP) when I dove wet at 52 deg. Apparently, some of you folks would think that's balmy.

 

[JohnW]

Ice Diving on Lake Minniwanka -13F Air Temp at the Surface and 32F in the Water in Mid March of this Year. Last Weekend we dove ForgetMeNot Pond (Springfed) and The Bottom was 35F.

 

[TXDM]

38F in BC, Canada. Did it one year without dry gloves and will not do that again.

 

[diverdan214]

I've got a bunch at 37F, or Frickin' cold in my temperature scale. Really want to do some ice diving but we didn't get a sustained cold this winter to freeze anything over, looking at headed over to Russia next summer to fix that.

 

[Scubar]

On 2/20/2005 Woods Hole, MA 34 deg F. Had quite an ice cream headache for the first couple minuits of the dive then it went a way. My face was numb after the 35 min dive.

 

[Peter_C]

North of San Francisco water temp 48 degrees. I was in a 7mm Pinnacle Polar wetsuit with a 2/1 shorty underneath and froze. 20 minutes into the dive I was shivering uncontrolably. Drysuit is on the shopping list.

 

[Jeepster]

Monterrey, CA - 44 degrees in a 7mm.

 

[PerroneFord]

What is your coldest water dive you have ever been in? and how COLD?

56F - In a 5mm shortie.