College Dorm - Drying Gear Fast
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The quickest way to dry my gear is to hang it outside. My wetsuits take 30hours to fully dry. Moving air and gravity if your best friend. If you have assess to a tub for lark tank you can fill it up with water and put some:
sink the stink
dawn
laundry soap
and let the gear soak for a bit and then rinse it. You can then hang it in your bedroom and it wont stink.
sink the stink
dawn
laundry soap
and let the gear soak for a bit and then rinse it. You can then hang it in your bedroom and it wont stink.
I found it helps a ton if you date a scuba diver.
I tended to just dry gear in the shower. It would get wet as we used the shower, but eventually dry fully. My roommates didn't mind, they were messy anyways, and when they came home drunk they'd usually talk to the wetsuit hanging up in the shower as they used the bathroom, which I found highly amusing. "Yo, wetsuit dude! Long time no see! How's it hanging!" and sometimes if they were really smashed they'd just go "oh sorry dude didn't see you there I'll go use the other bathroom."
As soon as I could, I moved out of the dorms and into a small house with friends. At one, we had a huge back porch I could leave gear on, and at the other house the next year, we had a garage. Now, I'm living in a house without either...I can get the stuff to dry enough on the drive home to stack it in a closet, putting BC on top of tanks. The neoprene drysuit was a hassle but this new trilam drysuit hangs fine on my loft bed to finish drying
I suspect my car smells like dive gear, but atleast it's just freshwater diving so it's not too bad.
I tended to just dry gear in the shower. It would get wet as we used the shower, but eventually dry fully. My roommates didn't mind, they were messy anyways, and when they came home drunk they'd usually talk to the wetsuit hanging up in the shower as they used the bathroom, which I found highly amusing. "Yo, wetsuit dude! Long time no see! How's it hanging!" and sometimes if they were really smashed they'd just go "oh sorry dude didn't see you there I'll go use the other bathroom."
As soon as I could, I moved out of the dorms and into a small house with friends. At one, we had a huge back porch I could leave gear on, and at the other house the next year, we had a garage. Now, I'm living in a house without either...I can get the stuff to dry enough on the drive home to stack it in a closet, putting BC on top of tanks. The neoprene drysuit was a hassle but this new trilam drysuit hangs fine on my loft bed to finish drying
I suspect my car smells like dive gear, but atleast it's just freshwater diving so it's not too bad.
I wasn't diving as regularly as I am now, but when I was in college I was a member of the maritime search and rescue team. After training I would leave my equipment in the shower to dry. Often times I would have a wetsuit, multiple pairs of fins, a drysuit, a harness, throw bad and 5,000 other things handing to dry in the shower with no problems. Some of my friends that brought their dive gear with them did the same after diving off the pier.
fisheater
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Talk to the Residence Life department, or building/area manager, and they can probably work something out for you if you ask nicely. Having good relations with Res Life staff will go a long ways, so if you're loud and obnoxious this option may be unavailable to you.
Even if its a locked storage room you use until the gear is dry, something is better than nothing... and stinky wet scuba gear is definitely not included in a bachelor pad.
Even if its a locked storage room you use until the gear is dry, something is better than nothing... and stinky wet scuba gear is definitely not included in a bachelor pad.
copter53
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Doesnt your dorm come with a clothes dryer. I dont understand. Just throw them in and timed dry 20 mins.
Beatlejuice
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Me too. And this boot dryer works great for the boots and gloves (you gotta buy the glove attachments separately, though).
http://www.amazon.com/PEET-Dryer-Advantage-M07F-Electric/dp/B0018EZHSC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1294172854&sr=8-3
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I feel for you dude. If your roommates are anything like mine were they will puke on it, pop it, or convert it into a bong. Emphasis on the bong... just imagine if you had a re breather, you would be popular. I bet the smell will be the least of your worries for a while.
I'd just wait until you hook up with some new dive buddies and see if they can help you out with a solution.
I'd just wait until you hook up with some new dive buddies and see if they can help you out with a solution.
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