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  e.hecht1@ge*.ge*.co* wrote:-
> I'm leaving for the Red Sea this week. Will I need warm clothes during the
> day? At night? I heard the water was cold and have packed both 1/4" wetsuit
> and 3 mm and skins. Eileen

  I dived in the northern Red Sea in the second week in September 1995. I
don't know how much it has cooled since. The sea temp[erature was 25 degC at
depth and up to 27 or 28 degC on the surface, and I dived without a suit. Some
others of us said that that was too cold, but I was OK.
  On my first dive I wore my thick cold-water suit, and in it (even with no
hood and all zips fully open) I felt somewhat ill from body overheating and
lost a lot of body salt from heavy sweating into the sea. After that I dived
suitless quite happily. (But I have more blubber than some people.)
  On land (near Sharm el Sheikh (Sinai)) the weather was like an incinerator.
  But in March 1994 I wore my thick wetsuit OK (no hood), and out of water the
air even got a bit cool after dark. diethard@F1*.te*.ch* told me that the
sea temperature in the Red Sea varies thus: "Nov: 25 degC, Dec: 24 degC, Jan:
22 degC, Feb: 21 degC, Mar: 20 degC, Apr: 21 degC. There might be a difference
of one degree plus in the Sinai area (Sharm el Sheikh)".

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