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Good stuff from DAN. My guess is most shops and renters won't do any of this. Maybe if everyone did this the DOW would bounce back...?
DAN: Sanitize equipment with 10% bleach solution.
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W W Meixner
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Absolutely...
A cap full of bleach in a standard ''car wash'' bucket is more than enough...
All my gear gets a full soap/warm water wash after each and every dive...including travel diving...have never used any disinfectant due to adverse affects from known and unknown properties...and have never had a problem...either with ''trace bacteria...or gear deterioration''...
You don't wash your hands/mouth with bleach...
Having said that...this may not be the time for ''any rental gear''...especially anything that goes in your mouth...
What dive ops are telling you they're doing...and what they're actually doing may be worlds apart...
W.M...
CaveSloth
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What about StarSan which is what we use to sanitize beer brewing equipment? It is Phosphoric Acid and is food grade, no rinse, and is used at 1 oz per 5 gallons of water for soaking.
Dusty123
Contributor
Steramine tablets are popular as well
Steramine is what we use for Rebreather disinfectant and it is certified as Covid-19 effective. It's also a lot safer to use than bleach as it is food safe without secondary rinsing. Specific to this topic it's really easy to travel with. I just break 1/2 of a tablet and drop it in to an Empty generic spay bottle when I travel with my rebreather. But really this could be good for any general hygiene needs.
Fill the bottle with water at your destination and shake it up to dissolve the tablet. Spay this solution all over anything and everything you care to and it will kill most anything that might be living on it. Spray the regulators, coffee cups, your insta-buddy. Whatever.
Steramine Multi-Purpose Sanitizer | Dive Gear Express®
Fill the bottle with water at your destination and shake it up to dissolve the tablet. Spay this solution all over anything and everything you care to and it will kill most anything that might be living on it. Spray the regulators, coffee cups, your insta-buddy. Whatever.
Steramine Multi-Purpose Sanitizer | Dive Gear Express®
Scroll just a little bit down the page - there’s a notice the product is out of stock and no idea when they will have it again.
wow, craziness! They ought to sell it in smaller quantities. One $10 bottle of 150 tablets will make about 225 gallons of spay-on disinfectant. I've probably used under 20 tablets in the 5 years. When I deep clean my gear I just toss a tablet in the sink and soak everything in use. Regs, loops, counter lungs, canisters, etc. I keep a spray bottle full too but that last a long time.
Dusty123
Contributor
Just dont put a couple tablets in a baggy and let them bounce around they break down into a blue tinged powder and the tsa really hates that in you carryon......
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