i've been diving since 98, and live in the northeast, personally the diving sucks, and i won't invest in gear to dive in merky grey water with hardly any fish, i head south, i still do some dives in the summer to stay current, i just stay above the thermalcline till it gets into the later summer, but they are just currency dives, after 1 week in mexico, i just can't do the northern waters again, unless i was on a wreck, thats my view, so no dry suit for me, just a bunch of 3mil stuff
Grant