Quote: (Originally Posted by
daviddem)
Also, beware of shorties. In warm water like that, there is always stuff that wants to sting you, first and foremost jelly fish. Any scratch on reefs or wrecks gets infected very rapidly, and is difficult to heal if the climate is also humid. Better wear a skin or 0.5mm full suit.
I'll second that
Get a DUI 30/30 and then its comfortable even in the tropics.
I don't like shorts and if I am doing a reef dive in a wetsuit (rarely) I'll just use a pocket on the harness in place of a light since I'll only need wetnotes and SMB for these types of smaller dives and it'll be too bright in the shallows for the light to really be effective - if its a tech dive I am in a drysuit anyway.