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Gary D.
Gary D.
What to do when you have to go...
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cooperscuba
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My wife reckons I shouldn`t share this experience. Was doing an OW course with (thankfully) one student, and I arrived on site (we were making two shore dives) with really bad constipation (I`m a smoker and love coffee but that did me no good on this day). I`d spent ten minutes trying to force the issue at home before I left for the center, another ten minutes at the center`s restroom, and another ten at the loos at the dive site - Alas! to no avail and ten minutes in an Egyptian loo is a long, long time - and was too embarrassed to tell my boss that I couldn`t dive as I needed a crap. I had decided to make the first entry from a pontoon over the reef plate so my student could use a giant stride, a walk of about 100 meters from where we set-up (it felt like a 100 miles as I was almost doubling over with stomach pain). As soon as I hit the water my bowels let go, it was disgusting but felt so, so good. Thankfully I was in my shorty (and we were early on site and the first in the water by an hour) and was able to flush a lot out as we did some surface navigation work (with me a couple of meters behind my student), leaving clouds of brown in my wake and CD-thin pieces of s**t to slowly sink beneath me. We then used a line to drop down to about 7m and I had hoped it was all gone, but we were accompanied by more clouds of brown and yet more CD-thin pats that settled gently around us on the floor. After the dive, thinking there was no way my student could have missed my faux pas, I apologised and explained that I had a bad stomach. True to Sod`s Law, my student hadn`t realised what I had been up to and my shame was compounded. I dread to think what it would have been like in a full suit ... probably a full suit.
Morale is ... never be afraid to cancel a dive for any reason.
And when you gotta go, you really gotta go.
Morale is ... never be afraid to cancel a dive for any reason.
And when you gotta go, you really gotta go.
OP
Steve02
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These have been enlighting responses. I guess the right thing to do is to just cancel the dive, you can always dive more later.
Do all dive boats have heads on them, or is this something you need to check?
Do all dive boats have heads on them, or is this something you need to check?
The Kraken
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Nope, and it is a good thing to check.
the K
the K
Steve,
I had that urge about half way through a predawn dive. My solution was to call the dive and surface. Luckily I was on a liveaboard and not far from the boat so, other than surprising the crew with my short dive, no big deal. The DM on deck asked if everything was ok so I lied & said I was starving & needed breakfast! I have wondered what I would have done on a boat dive w/o a head.
cooperscuba
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Slightly off topic (by a factor of one) but seeming as I`m doing my laundry ...
Was making a wreck dive with a good friend of mine on the south coast of England. The wreck had a permanent buoy on it`s bow and that`s where you`d start your dive, working down to the stern before doubling back on yourself to the bow. We were 40 minutes or so in to our dive when I had the urge to pee but being in my dry-suit and believing, incorrectly, that we were close to the line I held back. Unfortunately, 10 minutes later we still hadn`t arrived at the line and I was starting to sweat profusely, trying to stem the tide and decided to let nature take its course (the center we had taken the charter with was only an hour away and had showers so I thought I`d simply use those once we got back before changing in to my dry clothes). Back on the boat I refused my friends invitation to undo my zipper, and squelched about the deck drinking a cup of tea while we waited for the other divers on the charter to finish their dives. Two more divers then surfaced and one, as she was climbing back on the boat, dropped her camera in the drink and went down after it (with less than 20 bar, to 20m+, in a current). The lady shortly resurfaced with DCS after running out of air and making a buoyant ascent. The coastguard was called but were already responding to another call so passed us on to the Royal Navy and we held position for two hours while they evacuated the lady via helicopter. Somewhat subdued, the rest of us then headed back to port and the dive center (with me still squelching). As we were so late getting back, the center staff had locked up the shop, classrooms, workrooms and showers!It was my our last day diving, and we had to make a 300 mile trip back to our home city and my very, very good friend, who`s car we were travelling in, never complained once about my urine soaked odour. The name of the dive center ... Looe Divers.
Was making a wreck dive with a good friend of mine on the south coast of England. The wreck had a permanent buoy on it`s bow and that`s where you`d start your dive, working down to the stern before doubling back on yourself to the bow. We were 40 minutes or so in to our dive when I had the urge to pee but being in my dry-suit and believing, incorrectly, that we were close to the line I held back. Unfortunately, 10 minutes later we still hadn`t arrived at the line and I was starting to sweat profusely, trying to stem the tide and decided to let nature take its course (the center we had taken the charter with was only an hour away and had showers so I thought I`d simply use those once we got back before changing in to my dry clothes). Back on the boat I refused my friends invitation to undo my zipper, and squelched about the deck drinking a cup of tea while we waited for the other divers on the charter to finish their dives. Two more divers then surfaced and one, as she was climbing back on the boat, dropped her camera in the drink and went down after it (with less than 20 bar, to 20m+, in a current). The lady shortly resurfaced with DCS after running out of air and making a buoyant ascent. The coastguard was called but were already responding to another call so passed us on to the Royal Navy and we held position for two hours while they evacuated the lady via helicopter. Somewhat subdued, the rest of us then headed back to port and the dive center (with me still squelching). As we were so late getting back, the center staff had locked up the shop, classrooms, workrooms and showers!It was my our last day diving, and we had to make a 300 mile trip back to our home city and my very, very good friend, who`s car we were travelling in, never complained once about my urine soaked odour. The name of the dive center ... Looe Divers.
irishsquid
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Definitely. Nothing worse than taking a crap in someones boat, only to realize later: That wasn't a toilet.
sandmanz32
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din7
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carry several small dive flags on toothpicks to warn other divers.
Warhammer Maneuver!! I haven't heard that term in a while!! LOL!!Similar threads
