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Yeah, but you have gone from a warm air temp to what I would imagine
would be 18C max around Wilson's Prom at best, probably more like 14.
I'm typing this at 2am and it is still 24C outside. It's the
difference that makes the difference if you know what I mean. Heading
for lower temps over the next few days then we are heading up into the
high 40s. Water takes a lot longer to change temp than moving air
does.

 

Fair call, I was going on 30 year old dive training memory and was
told that you couldn't dive in water less then 4C as it didn't exist.
Your explanation there is more succinct but still gives the same
result. There is still that phase change at 4C ( and that article
explains that the change is rapid), but my memory (or people's
understanding of it when I was doing physics and dive training) still
means you are unlikely to dive in water under 4C.

 

Feels colder at the moment[1]. I was in it[2] at the weekend and it feels
the coldest it has been for a number of years.

[1] I don't think it actually is colder than 7C, it just feels it.
[2] South West Cornwall

 

Lunatic.

 

There is, if memory serves, a re-arrangement of liquid molecules in the
water that occurs at adn below 4C which accounts for the density of ice
being less than that of liquid H2O (generally)?

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<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527466.200-the-strangest-liquid-
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Ooh, ta.

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De nada. By a curious coincidence I was reading that on the shitter this
very morning.

 

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that there was

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Dare I ask your device of choice for such moments?

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Armitage shanks at a guess.

 

Crickey, they're a bit behind the times. I learnt that at school.

 

Well, my wetsuit works well, but I could have done without forgetting my
gloves.

 

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A magazine.

Call me old-fashioned.

 

You need next years big release from Apple, the iPooed.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle

 

heh

 

Your house needs a contoured memory foam bog seat. Or something.

 

Wetsuits are all very well but they don't preclude that OH **** moment as
you dive in.

I'll stick to winter rallies.

 

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