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if I pee or not. I often wash my wet suit infact more often than I wash the
dry suit after few days diving in warm water they can smell of body odour,
worse if they dont quite dry over night.But all I do is wash them with the
same shampo I use after a diver while
de kitting.

David

And some of us have P Valves.... Ahhhhh, thats better!

And some of you are seriously dehydrated... Over the past few years, I've
increased my level of hydration and actually feel a whole lot better
for it after diving. (Although a statistical sample of one doesn't
mean anything!) I have sadly observed many divers doing the drink &
dive thing, then having problems.

And drinking a glass of water before a dive won't actually do anything.
It takes some hours to become properly hydrated just drinking water
(you can drink various "isotonic" hydration style drinks or just add
some sugar & a little salt to your water!)

And lets not forget immersion diuresis... Your body will produce urine
when you are underwater whether you want it to or not! And too much
will-power can lead to bladder, etc. infections which I'm told aren't
nice )-:

So - drink MORE water! Someone proprly hydrated will be peeing almost
clear anyway, so much less smell in the wet suit! If you go to the toilet
and it's anything darker than a pale yellow then drink MORE water!

Oddly enough, some deco research has been carried out on commercial divers
making them do "P" stops... By doing so, they can decompress them faster
- pee away your bubbles! I like that idea. The problem was making
hairy-arsed commercial divers drink enough to make the pee continually
during ascent... For longer dives I now take a "platypus" drinking system
underwater with me. Works wonders!

I'll stop ranting now.

Gordon

dive.  Comes from doing most of our

inhibited.

Personally, going before diving is not reliable for me.  If I were diving
dry, I'd try harder . . . or install an overboard discharge.  One of several
reasons I'll never do extreme deco is that urine is not the only bodily
waste that I'd rather not be in a rubber bag with.

Inhibited?  I know somebody that is so inhibited he could not urinate off
the dive platform of my boat or even go when completely submerged in the
water.  Since I'm the one that has to pump out the head, I learned to
overcome what little modesty (very little) I naturally have.

Lee

"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in news:cbrds1$e5f
$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk:

Or is that Willy power?  ;-)

Chris Q

It would take more than that on a typical Caribbean 2 tank dive that goes
out at 9am, gets back at 2pm and has no toilet facilities on board. And as
for full day Maldivian trip by dhoni ...

Jason