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Trip Report from Austria: Fernsteinsee/Samarangersee

Started Oct 23, 2020 | Discussions thread
OP Architeuthis Regular Member • Posts: 491
Re: Trip Report from Austria: Fernsteinsee/Samarangersee

kelpdiver wrote:

9C is about the practical limit for wetsuits, though for many it's likely 11-12. 10 is where I need to start wearing gloves, which I hate.

I once forgot my hood and had to dive Carmel in 9-10. The first 5 minutes were very painful in the temple, until it went numb. Then I settled, albeit with a highly elevated rate of air consumption.

Hi kelpdiver,

Many years ago I was diving in "Grüner See", which has about 5 °C, without gloves. I had promised this dive to my little brother, who just had achieved his scuba licence and upon dressing for the dive I discovered that I had forgotten the gloves. After the dive the others had to undress me, my hands were so thumb, in case anyone would have chopped off my hands with a saw, I would not have felt anything. The pain, when the feelings returned to my hands was terrible...

In my case, the temperature limit for wetsuit raised a lot with the ageing process: while 5 °C was very cold, but still o.k. in the old days, nobody can bring me in water lower than 20 °C in a wetsuit these days, since I have my trilaminate drysuit (with different strength of underwear for different water temperatures)...

Wolfgang

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