Every underwater photo I have seen taken in Bonaire everybody is donning a skin or shorty is the water that cold?? I dive all the time in the keys and never wear a skin..

David,

My wife and I always wore skins and a 3/2 full length wet suit. I probably could have gotten by with the skin alone, but I like having the protection of the full wet suit (especially if I'm anywhere near fire coral). On our first trip to Bonaire, which happened during the month of march, I would gladly have worn my 7mm full suit on our night dives. After doing 4 dives per day for 6 days my core body temp had dropped and I was absolutely freezing when the sun was down.

I always figured that if I got a little warm, I could just pull open the collar on my suit and let in some fresh 80 degree water.

Michael

A nice arrays of opinions from last week is at http://www.oldbonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/1022/175963.html

David (Johnson),

Thanks for posting the link to last weeks discussion. This is a topic that comes up every once in a while and has been discussed at length.

David (Lang),

The best thing to do to find more discussion threads about it is to just do a keyword search for more info. I'll leave you with the same philosophy I use for everyone else. It's always good to have the skin/suit along just in case. You never know.


Michael

I brought my 3/2, as did my wife. She wore it the whole week, and was glad she did. I never took it out of the suitcase, and was glad I didn't. Never once did I even get chilled. Totally depends on the individual. Especially on the shore dives though, I am glad I didnt wear it. To me, its too much of a hassel to take, put on, take off.

Temps were 81-82 the whole week.