I am a volunteer firefighter as well....we do all our water and ice rescues with dry suits. With the exception of underwater body recoveries, where we use full 6 mm wet suits. Our lake temperature may go up to 20 Celsius ( around 68 F) in the summer and of course several feet of ice in the winter. :) Jim Meldrum Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. > My question (you knew this was coming, right?) is: Are these > temperature/garment recommendations based on your personal experience or > another source? > > As a side note, my next door neighbor (a volunteer fireman) said he > thought > my 3 mm wet suit to be good only down to 55 degree water temp. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Nov 13 1999 - 13:59:29 PST
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