Cozumel bans peeing in the sea

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El Graduado

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New signs have been posted in Cozumel, politely requesting people (in stilted English) to stop peeing in the sea to protect the coral. That will fix the problem!!!

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Dear Ric,

That is Funny!

Dave
 
That's not a ban that's a friendly polite request.

Which will be ignored of course because:

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New signs have been posted in Cozumel, politely requesting people (in stilted English) to stop peeing in the sea to protect the coral. That will fix the problem!!!

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Not a problem for many of us, conventional wisdom suggests that mine stays fully contained within my wetsuit.
 
Well, we read of sewage discharge into oceans harming reefs as it creates abnormally high nutrient levels (as can fertilizer run off in some places), and urine does contain substantial nitrogen. Maybe there's an impact?

Sadly, I don't think this is a change we're going to make. From what an issue of DAN's Alert Diver magazine had to say, the buoyant effect of water shifts more blood volume into a diver's chest/abdomen, the heart interprets this as a fluid overload and send a message to the kidney to reduce blood volume...by peeing off water.

And we encourage divers to stay hydrated! Not all boats have lavatories, and going into a small, dark enclosed space on a rocking boat can be a sea sickness nightmare.

And most swimmers and snorkelers won't bother.

While I don't know that the knowledge will inform any practical changes, I would like to know if the nitrogen we're, uh, cranking out, is having any effect on the reef.
 
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