Well, the story gets a little stranger after this morning.
I was back out at Lake Sunapee today. I decided to add a small ski wax thermometer onto the dive line to get an fair idea of what the water temperature was both at the surface and at depth. I played around quite a bit in the shallower water with FRC before I headed on out to the 25-26 foot deep water area.
The surface was 17 degrees C. Down at 5m it was still running 15 degrees. Right around 6-6.5 meters is when the temperature started to take the nice drop down to 10 degrees. Strangely, I never had any goggles leakage trouble today until I went for the final dive, and then it was barely noticable but it did happen...makes me wonder if the temperature drop caused the leakage to form.
After driving the 10 minutes home and put everything out to dry before the rain hits shortly, I decided to take the 10 minute drive on down the Goshen Ocean and see what the surface temperature was down there. Like I said yesterday I was guessing 3-4 degrees F difference. WOW...did I call that one right on the money. It was 20 C at the surface, err 64 F on Lake Sunapee and 68 on Goshen Ocean.
Now the real question...do you notice more of a reaction when you have a wider spread of temperature? When I took the dive down to 25 feet on Lake Sunapee today I noticed the change in temperature but it didn't seem like I was noticing as big of a response to run, err swim for the surface like I was yesterday on Goshen Ocean. Does the wider spread normally also give a much bigger mental reaction?
Ryan
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