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From: Mick Whittingham on 11 Feb 2010 04:06 In article <a29a57e1cd3756c11501248131f33b65(a)blakeley.plus.com>, boots <boots(a)despammed.com> writes >On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:15:12 +0000 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Mick >Whittingham says: > >>In article <e0f6f706d2f0ba18bdf401a1ebf4e35a(a)blakeley.plus.com>, boots >><boots(a)despammed.com> writes > >>>[1] Finished a course 2 weeks ago using inland sites 3 - 5 degrees. >>>That was a tad too cool for me after a while. >> >>May I ask where? > >Mainly Vobster with a day at Stoney. What was the vis like at Stoney? I didn't go there last year as every one I asked said it was ****[1]! > >> >>I helped out with student training in Gildenburgh one December[1]. >>Well down into the lower single digits. > >Never been there, It is said to students, if you can dive at Gildenburgh you can dive anywhere. For that read ****[1] vis. It's an ex brick works with a silt bottom. Dive it on a Friday and you may have 5 -6 meter vis. By Saturday mid day that reduces to 1 or 2 meters. It takes the rest of the week for the silt to drop out. >>O'3 2-100 Ri Dry suit. [2] >>Ski thermals and Point below zero dive thermals. >>Chill guard on the mouth piece. >> >>Still COLD! > >Predator Drysuit, I hear good things spoken of them. O3 did a great deal to get my inverted pear shape into a suit that I could justify the cost of. > borrowed 300gm undersuit[1] and on the last day dry >gloves as well. Never used dry gloves, although people I dive with do. > >[1] My 200gm really wasn't up to 2 - 3 hours a day in the water. > Often or not the coldest I get is in the RIB between dives waiting for the next slack water. You get back into the sea and it feels warmer. [1] Insert your favourite expletive here. -- Mick Whittingham 'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.' William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.
From: Switters on 11 Feb 2010 04:20
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:49:27 GMT, boots wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:12:00 +0000 (UTC) in uk.rec.motorcycles, > Switters says: > >>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:20:10 GMT, boots wrote: >> >>> Current UK sea temperatures will be >>> around 7 or 8 degrees in the south >> >>Feels colder at the moment[1]. I was in it[2] at the weekend and it >>feels the coldest it has been for a number of years. > > I tried around a month ago surfing near Croyde in Devon using my 5mm > wetsuit. I lasted about 15 minutes although several people were in for > an hour or so. The North coast always feels colder. |