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3mm elios for open water in Europe

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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
May your diaphragm's stay high despite Easter food intake
 
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.

Would like to hear other stories.
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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)
 
OK, thanks for the info. I have finally placed an order,will see if it is a good chocie
Greets
 
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