ive done early may a few times in a spring suit and could only last about an hour and i think im fairly tolerant , this is bull**** or hes got an issue were he cant feel cold
you should paddle out w/ him and make sure he doesn't ppass out or something. he probably doesn't know **** about surfing either, not realizing how cold the water is.
but if he's not an experienced supr then he will most likely lose his board and have to swim in to get it, which would be the longest and most painful swim of his life. talk about shrinkage
whens this goin on ahaha i would love to see that first the guy will lose his nuts forever from serious shrinkage second he wouldnt last like 2 waves its still cold as hell my friend surfed with me saturday and wore no gloves and his hands were ridiculously numb after an hour or less