I can't pee underwater unless I'm in a wetsuitNo and I don't want to either, so no wetsuit for me.....
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I can't pee underwater unless I'm in a wetsuitNo and I don't want to either, so no wetsuit for me.....
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I wouldn't ever require or ask my crew to handle a strangers (even our regular divers) pee filled wetsuits!
Urine is sterile. It's pretty much the same thing as sweat. And it pretty much washes out in the water.We don't keep wet suits for obvious hygienic reasons and I wouldn't ever require or ask my crew to handle a strangers (even our regular divers) pee filled wetsuits! It may be a nice service, but there is a very valid and SOLID reason that MOST dive shops do not handle wet suits. It's simply disgusting!
Urine is sterile. It's pretty much the same thing as sweat.
Your analogy works better if the towel was soaked in sea water after soaking up the teaspoon of urine. I'd be surprised if too many bacteria used to the vaginal environment could handle soaking in 80 degree saline water and I wouldn't expect a female DM to handle the peed-in wetsuits by holding them between her legs while naked. But what will it hurt her to hold them in her hands, providing that she washes her hands after?If I used a towel to soak up a teaspoon of urine from a woman with a UTI and handed that to you, would you use that to dry off your hands after washing them?
Would you treat it the same as if I handed you a towel containing the same amount of sweat from an entirely disease and infection free pre-adolescent male?
Would you treat both the same as a towel containing the same amount of purified water?
Urine is sterile.
It's pretty much the same thing as sweat.
Is it your point that the personnel working in the thousands and thousands of dive ops around the world that rent out wetsuits should don hazmat suits before checking the wetsuits back in?