[apneaboy]

My shivering stops on the breath up if i relax enough too, when relaxed cold feels different. Its just a sensation and my body can ignore it. Eventually i can't ignore it and i have to get out but it can be ages after i first start shivering i can stop it.

I think if you dive regularly in the cold it gets easier.

The biggest thing for me is looking after yourself on the way to the dive site (temperature of the car, what you have eaten), and at the dive site before you get in (wooley hats, lots of layers and stay out of the wind). Some days i forget all the little tricks, especially at the beginning of winter and i'm cold before i start but if you consider everything you can be ready for the cold.