HELP me pee...

[Mark Derail]

I'm just amazed that some guys pee in the wetsuits that are zippered in the back, and get on the boat like that.

If I was that desperate:
1. Tell the boat capitaine
2. I'd get out of my wetsuit
3. Dive with flippers & mask/snorkel, swim away, do my thing out of sight while treading, my back to the boat

There's usually enough time while other divers are coming up.
Can't imagine it any other way.

 

[Bubbletrubble]

Mary Brown wrote an insightful piece entitled "Dive Girl: Weeing at Sea."
I believe it was written before the landmark development of the She-P.

Although the essay addresses the problem of female divers stuck on a small boat/RIB without restroom facilities, I think some of the general approaches might translate nicely to the art of UW peeing. For instance, the "plan the wee/wee the plan" bit is rather heady stuff.

 

[Tropicalwolf]

Funny how defensive people get when you point out their disgusting habits.

 

[ianr33]

Sam, if you can pee at the dock . . .

Can you pee standing up in water to your knees?

Then standing in water up to your p-valve?

Then standing in water up to your waist?

Perhaps 'easing in' to the situation will help.

If you can pee at the dock you can pee in your sock

Can you pee standing up or is it too much ?

When in water up to your waist can you pee slowly or only in haste?

Maybe easing in will help or only make you yelp.

I want to help you Sam I am.

 

[melanie.]

Funny how defensive people get when you point out their disgusting habits.

My biological need to eliminate toxins from my body through urine is not disgusting.

What is disgusting is your inability to provide helpful insights to those struggling to maintain their bodies balance.

All people are not created with the same body type, and just because we need different ways to "go" doesn't make yours any better. Creating social stigma over a simple bodily function can lead specifically in this case to dehydration, heat exhaustion, urinary tract infections, and a plain old bad dive because you need to go.

So shush up unless you have something helpful to say in this particular case

 

[Tropicalwolf]

Really? I did not claim urination was disgusting. I did not say urinating in a lake or ocean was disgusting. What I am saying is, urinating in a tight fitting garment designed to keep that urine or water circulating across the entirity of the skin it covers is, in fact, disgusting. As is discharging said collected urine at the top of a dive ladder or on a boat deck as OTHERS in this thread claim to do. Now, unless you are going to address specifically what I said, and not meander into false assumptions, then you can feel free to "shush." And yes, I hope the OP finds a suitable solution for his/her drysuit issue as there are plenty of products on the market for just such issues.

 

[down4fun]

I have never undestood wetsuit pee'ers. Those who pee on the deck or "flush" at the ladder are filthy. Yep, flushing at the ladder, just the place many get unintentionslly dunked and "get a mouthful." I proclaim that the fourth group is those of us who use the facilities before hand. Proper hydration is a balance. Over hydration is what causes one to pee so much, so please don't use the tired "hydration" excuse for laziness.

Luckily you are in Ohio. but i warn you should you ever find yourself in Florida, specifically doing some tech dives in the pompano where I am on a boat I guarantee there will be peeing as well as wetsuit flushing on or near the ladder. :mooner:


Sam my heart goes out to you. I have had my share of she-p struggles and "squeezes" I don't wish that on any one. As so many have said, relaxation and even a bit of distraction seems to let it flow.

 

[melanie.]

What I am saying is, urinating in a tight fitting garment designed to keep that urine or water circulating across the entirity of the skin it covers is, in fact, disgusting. As is discharging said collected urine at the top of a dive ladder or on a boat deck as OTHERS in this thread claim to do.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the question asked by the OP

Now, unless you are going to address specifically what I said, and not meander into false assumptions, then you can feel free to "shush." And yes, I hope the OP finds a suitable solution for his/her drysuit issue as there are plenty of products on the market for just such issues.

Read again, she has - hence the she-p and installed p-valve. This is not solving the psychological issue she is having, which I believe can be further exasperated by society dictating to us (and to women) when/where it is ok to go pee.

 

[ligersandtions]

Thought of something else, Sam...

Did you buddies know you were trying to pee? Were they watching over you ever so closely while you were trying to go? I'm not one for stage fright normally, but I used to come down with a gnarly case of it when it came to using my p-valve! I actually have a buddy who used to think it was effing hilarious to loudly ask me what I was doing (in front of everyone on the boat!) if I were trying to go on the surface....and would just stare me down underwater when he could tell I was concentrating awfully hard on one bit of reef!

I learned that it was easier to just kind of hang off to the side while I tried to get it going, without bringing too much attention to myself. I don't know if the same was true for Lynne, but I recall a post of hers where she said she couldn't do it "in front" of anyone, until her cave diving buddies put her in the #2 position on a long dive

 

[knotical]

Suggestion 1: "strain" a bit just to get it started.

Suggestion 2: Wait until you are old and incontinent.

OK, only the first suggestion might have merit. Or not.