Cozumel bans peeing in the sea

[BoundForElsewhere]

You know, it didn't really bother me that much. I assume we're talking about borat goes diving, right?

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Oh. Pooping underwater.

Oh please, I've **** my pants so many times it doesn't even phase me.

Now who wants to be my buddy in Roatan?

 

[El Graduado]

An average of 5,500,000 (five million, five hundred thousand) cubic meters of water PER SECOND run through the Cozumel channel. That is 475,200,000,000 (four hundred and seventy-five billion, two hundred million) cubic meters per 24 hour period.

A normal adult bladder can hold 400 to 600 milliliters of urine.

1,000 divers a day diving two tanks a day could not pee more than 600 liters per dive, or 1.2 cubic meters per day. Let’s round it down to 1 cubic meter per day to account for people with small bladders (you know who you are!)

1 in 475,200,000,000

 

[Soloist]

1 in 475,200,000,000

Wow, it’s worse than I thought! So much for that third cup of coffee at Casa Mexicana...

 

[ggunn]

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 small boat heads just flush into the surrounding water, anyway.

 

[formernuke]

It's not the urine. It's all the chemicals we put into the toilets that we then flush into the water.

Or we could just put the magical blue dye that shows when someone goes and handout tickets.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

We all live in the yellow submarine...

 

[Diver below 83]

They need to post those signs here in ftl evidently

 

[ggunn]

They need to post those signs here in ftl evidently

Faster than light?

 

[seeker242]

What they should be banning is wastewater discharge into the sea...

Another threat to coral: sewage discharges by Cozumel hotels

Another threat to coral: sewage discharges by Cozumel hotels
At least a dozen pipes dispose of wastewater in waters off Cozumel

Iliana García, an expert with the non-government environmental organization Amigos de Sian Ka’an, said that wastewater disposal is a problem across Quintana Roo, explaining that only half of homes and businesses in the state are connected to proper drainage systems.

She also said the federal Environment Secretariat has failed to update regulations that govern wastewater disposal for 23 years, even though it should do so every five years.

“The parameters are very lax at the moment, they’re no longer consistent with the [tourism] activity . . .