{"id":6619,"date":"2012-12-10T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:39:44","slug":"water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-in-my-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/12\/10\/water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-in-my-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, water everywhere but not a drop in my suit!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Michelle Marraffini, Invertebrate Zoology and Molecular Ecology Lab<\/h3>\n
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Breakwater Cove dive spot in Monterey where DUI had set up their Demo Day. Photo by: Pamela Neeb Wade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scuba diving on the central coast means you get to see amazing kelp forests and underwater geological formations but it also often means you are getting in the sometimes frigid waters of Monterey Bay.\u00a0 At depth, the water can get very cold, I experienced a dive at Big Creek, Big Sur where the temperate was only 8 Celsius (~46 degrees Fahrenheit)!\u00a0 At that temperature my wimpy 7 millimeters feels like wearing shorts in a blizzard and gets even thinner as the pressure compresses all the neoprene bubbles in my suit.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years I have seen many other divers in thicker wetsuits (up to 20 millimeters on their core) and dry suits.\u00a0 That is right scuba diving without getting wet.\u00a0 When a company that makes dry suits (DUI) offered a demo day at a local dive spot my labmate Pamela and I leaped at a chance to jump in the water without getting wet.<\/p>\n

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By Michelle Marraffini, Invertebrate Zoology and Molecular Ecology Lab Scuba diving on the central coast means you get to see amazing kelp forests and underwater geological formations but it also often means you are getting in the sometimes frigid waters of Monterey Bay.\u00a0 At depth, the water can get very cold, I experienced a dive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-diving"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20867,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/20867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}