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You can acclimitize to the cold, up to a point. I occasionally swim in lakes and don't like to swim below 15C, even with a wetsuit. But some people who swim al
by hermitcrab 7y ago
You can acclimitize to the cold, up to a point.
I occasionally swim in lakes and don't like to swim below 15C, even with a wetsuit. But some people who swim all year round can handle much colder.
I remember having a BBQ with some British and Brazilians guests here in the UK. The British people were wearing t-shirts and shorts and saying how lovely it was. The Brazilians (who came from the very hot North of Brazil and were only visiting the UK briefly) were wearing jackets and shivering.
- henvic 7y agoAs a Brazilian from the Northeast who loves cold, this is funny to me because I just moved to somewhere cold (The Netherlands), and my coworkers (many even from Russia) sometimes get surprised to see me going out for lunch (in January/February) without a coat.
- steve_adams_86 7y agoI was thinking of this, too. I swim in the water here down to 6 or 7°C in a 7mm wetsuit. It's cold, but it's very bearable and I enjoy it comfortably for the first 45 minutes or so. If I'm diving a lot (I'm usually spearfishing down to 20m or so) I'll often extend that quite a while due to generated heat. I'm not sure what it is, but the exertion of diving combined with breath-holding turns my body into a furnace. When I first started doing this, I found the water in summer (around 6°C warmer) incredibly cold. I'd shiver if I was snorkelling for a while because my activity was too low. I struggled with that because being so cold would ruin breath-holds. Now I kind of prefer winter dives, because in summer I get unbearably hot. I constantly need to let water into my suit, and I can swim without it for around 1.5 hours. That adjustment only took a year or so. People are awesome at adapting to environments in that way.