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Hood Reviews: Dive Hood Reviews, Surf/Swim Hood Reviews Water pulls heat out of your body 25 times faster than air does. Many people don't realize that almost half of a person's heat loss occurs right out of the top of your head. Covering your head with a hood will increase warmth and comfort and extend your activities a great deal. Even in warm water, you may not need a head cover for the first day or two of a trip, but on following days, the water seems colder because you have lost core heat. Like air temperature, water temperatures throughout the world are different in winter than they are in summer, varying as much as 20 degrees. In the Caribbean the water temperature can be in the 80's in the summer, six months later the water temperature can be in the low 70's. Women tend to get colder easier than men. This is because women tend to have more surface area (curves) then men do. If a couple is traveling together it will almost always make more sense for the woman to have a warmer hood than a man would to the same destination at the same time of year. If in doubt, always buy a hood slightly warmer than your needs. You can always remove a head cover, but if you are cold during a dive there is not much you can do except stop diving.
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