Dehydration Whilst Diving

[Steve Lawson]

I've found some refillable pouches that hold about a pint at the dollar store. I've filled them up with Gatorade and left them at the deco stop. Worked great. Always nice to get a little hydration and sugar after a dive. On the last dive on one trip, I mixed in some tequila and shared it with my buddies, to their surprise. It gave a new definition to "Deco Bar."

 

[rob.mwpropane]

I have heard many ways to work around dehydration why under water, like during deco stops or very long rebreather diving. How do you deal with it? My favorite so far (though I havent tried it), is i the capri-sun, because you can keep them in a bcd pocket, and easily open them underwater, and because they wont leak, you get a significant amount of liquid from container v water you are diving in.

What type of dives are you doing?

Mine are mostly rec, under 1.5-2hrs. I try to hydrate the 24 hrs leading up to it. I think when I started diving cotton mouth was a more common but I don't notice it anymore. I've done capri suns, and they're great, but good luck trying to do anything with the straw wrapper. I think it would be better to maybe tie the straw to a rubber band or something and attach to a chest d ring? I haven't tried that yet. I tried putting it in a pocket but in cold water with heavy stuff, dry gloves, etc, on I couldn't find it.

Camel Paks look great, but at the stage of diving I'm at I don't need one more thing to maintain.

 

[PfcAJ]

how big of camelbacks are you using if you're taking 2?

100oz I think. I rarely finish them completely.

I’ll usually stash the water one deep (120 or 70) and the G at 20’. Snacks too.

 

[tbone1004]

100oz I think. I rarely finish them completely.

I’ll usually stash the water one deep (120 or 70) and the G at 20’. Snacks too.

snacks critical at O2 stop, hangry divers are no fun!

 

[rob.mwpropane]

100oz I think. I rarely finish them completely.

I’ll usually stash the water one deep (120 or 70) and the G at 20’. Snacks too.

snacks critical at O2 stop, hangry divers are no fun!

Ok... I need to know what snacks? I was trying to come up with something the other day and the best thing I can is maybe the squeezable yogurts? In the tube.. but that's as far as I got.

 

[FloatingFox]

I've found some refillable pouches that hold about a pint at the dollar store. I've filled them up with Gatorade and left them at the deco stop. Worked great. Always nice to get a little hydration and sugar after a dive. On the last dive on one trip, I mixed in some tequila and shared it with my buddies, to their surprise. It gave a new definition to "Deco Bar."

Would consuming alcohol affect your ability to effectively decompress?

 

[100days-a-year]

Prehydration prevents dehydration.
Since this is advanced and not tech I'm going to assume the scope of diving does not include 6 hours of decompression per day.

 

[tbone1004]

Ok... I need to know what snacks? I was trying to come up with something the other day and the best thing I can is maybe the squeezable yogurts? In the tube.. but that's as far as I got.

gogurts are good, gummys of any variety work, bananas.

Like @100days-a-year alluded to though, the stuff that @PfcAJ and I are talking about are mainly extremely long range cave dives. I am hard pressed to do more than 2 hours in the ocean, and for that I do tend to take that doubles mounted camelbak from Deep Sea Supply but that is fairly small and is certainly more than I need for 2-3hrs in the water. Prehydrate and you should be fine for anything in the ocean.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

gogurts are good, gummys of any variety work, bananas.

Like @100days-a-year alluded to though, the stuff that @PfcAJ and I are talking about are mainly extremely long range cave dives. I am hard pressed to do more than 2 hours in the ocean, and for that I do tend to take that doubles mounted camelbak from Deep Sea Supply but that is fairly small and is certainly more than I need for 2-3hrs in the water. Prehydrate and you should be fine for anything in the ocean.

I like the bananas idea. What do you do with gummies to store them? Maybe just a few in a plastic bag and eat all at once? I guess a banana can get placed in a pocket, and just hope it doesn't get squished.

 

[tbone1004]

I like the bananas idea. What do you do with gummies to store them? Maybe just a few in a plastic bag and eat all at once? I guess a banana can get placed in a pocket, and just hope it doesn't get squished.

I have a thigh pocket strapped to my O2 bottle that holds stuff like that. As said above, I don't usually take snacks into the ocean, in a cave you can eat them one at a time if you're careful but we don't usually have thick gloves on and it's fresh water so that helps considerably.