At 11:25 23/01/02 +1100, Strike wrote:

>Over the past few weeks the water temperature has been over 23 deg.
>C.  I've been alternating between a semi-dry and a lycra suit, (which has
>usually been adequate for a single dive.)  Today, because it was our
>intention to take our time and look for macro 'thingies', I wore a 1 mm.
>(I'd forgotten about the possibility of the cold current that seems to
>sweep into Sydney for a few weeks around this time of the year!).  The
>temperature quickly dropped to 18 deg. C.

What?
You were diving in 18C with a 1 MM suit?
This is damn cold.
I would have aborted the dive.

>It was an enjoyable 74-minutes - but I still couldn't wait to warm up under
>a cold shower! :-)

How can you call this enjoyable?  Sounds like extremely cold to me.
Sounds like a nice dive though :-)


Regards,

                    Kuty