Hee Hee... well.. August and small parts of September are about the only months with 70ish temps. The rest of the year, it's "more chillier!"
If diving in the River (St. Lawrence), there is no thermocline. But if diving in Kingston or Tobermory, for example, there are thermoclines that are in the 40s quite often, so drysuit = goooooooood.
Was that dive in someone's hot tub?Originally Posted by seasnake
We do reach the "bare minimum" here in the summer. I think "cold" water is considered anything under 70F, right? End of August first of September we finally reach that. In fact, this year I think I saw 74F as the warmest. I dove in the Bahamas in March with similar water temps!The Canadian Caribbean!
Everyone who has ever tried to lure me up that way has always told me to come in August, when the water finally warms up to around 50F. You guys definitely have my respect and admiration, but I am happy being bored with warmer waters
I remembered that last Sunday, on our last afternoon dive, some buddies had their arms crossed underwater and did the universal "brrrr" shimmy. When I checked my Suunto later, it read 81F hehe, everything's relative indeed
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I remembered that last Sunday, on our last afternoon dive, some buddies had their arms crossed underwater and did the universal "brrrr" shimmy. When I checked my Suunto later, it read 81F hehe, everything's relative indeed
Now that's just not fair!!!
Water temps. are 37 here, right now!
I had that happen to me as well. The first dive I did with my Mares comp. I felt cold - looked at the temp on it when I got back on the boat and it said 29C (about 88F)...I remembered that last Sunday, on our last afternoon dive, some buddies had their arms crossed underwater and did the universal "brrrr" shimmy. When I checked my Suunto later, it read 81F hehe, everything's relative indeed
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Bama, I guess it depends on where you are going. But we have steady temps in the 60's in the summer, maxing out in the (very low) 70's in August, like I said.
littleleemur, at our fav shore dive site, we were having those temps down to about 45', I'm going to say off the top of my head. Scuba Smurf can correct me on this. We do have thermoclines, and at that particular spot at that time it was probably 65F below 45'. Summer is fine here in a 6 or 7mm wetsuit. I love diving in my wetsuit and can't wait to get into it once the waters warm up. And there are lots of folks who dive their wetsuits well into the winter. My first few years of diving I dove a 7mm suit year round. I'm not saying it wasn't painful ...
One lady diver here holds our local record for doing two dives one day in I think it was 42F in a 3mm! All the macho types here dive in 3mm in August. (Although I think they are nuts)
But yeh, a drysuit DEFINITELY makes the diving more enjoyable up here.
88 degrees Lottie, sounds like a hot tub.
We are going diving this Saturday moring, they are calling for snow with a high of 29F. I don't even want to know what the water temp. is. Now I have to decide on 7mm gloves or dry gloves. Some of my friends are going to be diving in wetsuits.....ha, they are nuts!
Right now, 29F seems a bit balmy to me... It's -26C with the wind chill, in Ottawa right now....
I still wonder why we still have interchanging methods of temperature gauging. The water is usually measured in Farenheit, while the air is usually measured in Celcius...
Because we dive down south with Americans.I still wonder why we still have interchanging methods of temperature gauging. The water is usually measured in Farenheit, while the air is usually measured in Celcius...
In the rest of the world, the water temp is also measured in Celcius & air is measured in bar. The downside to that is 200bar (the standard fill for AL80) is about 2800-2900psi, while we expect a good 3000psi if not a generous 3200psi.
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