3mm elios for open water in Europe

[Swider]

Hi everybody
I will be placing order with Elios soon. I decided upon material, but I still have a dilemma of thickness- it's gonna be my first freediving wetsuit, I would like it to be universal enough to use it both in pool for static and open water-mainly in Poland, I guess not much different with temps then Germany/Scandinavia -deeper then 8m and you're under thermocline in 4 Celsius .
I do not expect to spend in water more then 2 hours at a time, also not gonna dive deeper then 30 m.
Does anybody have experience with diving in 3 mm tailor made suits in this range of temps?
Some people advice me to go for 5 mm, saying that they get cold in 3 mmin 28 Celsius in pool while doing static-I assume I may be quite more resistant to cold then this.
would be grateful for any input
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[buddha]

Pool training and open water dives are very different in Europe.
When I achieved my first CWT 50m. in the Cantabric Sea it was 14° degrees and with a 5mm suit I ended very cold. On the other side, this suit now is terribly hard and almost no flexibility to pool training (relaxing on dynamics) and too much buoyant.
I think you may begin with a cheap suit now, and only then you can switch to two suits: one for the pool and the other for the sea.
That's my advice for a beginner/intermediate who has not "no warm up dives" approach.

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[Nikodk]

3mm for open water in Scandinavian is too cold.
5mm to be used July to September else 7mm

Today the temperature is 7 degrees C.. (Denmark)

 

[Swider]

OK, thanks for the info. I have finally placed an order,will see if it is a good chocie
Greets