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I have one. The cast of a dry suit. I would love to dive dry in the first
few months of summer. However I also enjoy diving wet from late july till
the end of august. However the rest of the year I would dive dry if I could
afford to. But this is an expensive sport and for a student to afford a dry
suit that is well unfortunately a luxury I have to do with out. Bot a macho
thing. Believe me when I dive on christmas and new years eve any thought of
machoness shrivels right up in my 6.5 mil farmer john ;-)  But I do see a
lot of divers dive wet and I will be this next weekend. I just dive for
shorter amounts of time. ;-)


Thom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Graham" <magraham@ne*.co*>
To: "Bob Sherwood" <sherwood@st*.rr*.co*>; "terry michael"
<OEA51@go*.co*>;
"Bob Hines" <bhines.vwmc@us*.ne*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Re: Re: [Dumb vs. Smart Re: Wet vs Dry in SoCal]]


> Bob Hines' observation that "...Very few people in the Great Lakes area
wear
> Drysuits, unless they are doing Ice diving or extended deeper diving in
the
> cold..." would suggest to me that Bob does very little diving in the Great
> Lakes.  I've been actively diving the Great Lakes for 12 years and it
seems
> to me, from what I've observed, the majority of divers are diving dry,
> "technical" and "sport" divers alike.  It seems to me that being cold has
> nothing to do with being a wimp...but being "macho" about diving wet in
cold
> water is stupidity.
>
> Bob, provide a sound argument for diving a wetsuit in the cold waters of
the
> Great Lakes beyond "You get used to the cold after about 20 years of it.".
>
> MAG
>
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