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"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
---W. C. Fields
 
Want to get really concerned: When I was a marine biology student I took a course in interstitial fauna.....or the organisms that live between the grains of sand on the beach. Pretty disgusting if you look, which I don't. (BTW: I changed majors right after that, now I only look at virtual bugs)

Anywhere you look there is a whole other world which we on the upper end of the food chain choose to ignore. Ever really examine the dirty you vacumn out of your rugs?
 
I'm a microbiologist, which gives me a certain fatalistic approach to bacterial exposures...

Most of the many microbiological agents found in seawater are not a threat to a healthy diver. The only time it becomes a major concern is when diving near any sewage. Thats a definite no-no.
 
GlazierB:
I think about this a lot as of late... Been a lot of reports about the citys sewage department send millions of liters straight in the waters close to where I dive... Victoria BC is one of last places in BC to NOT treat their waste before sending it out to sea...

Finally something is getting done about it though...

Now we can't call it the Strait of Juan de Poopa anymore.
 
I dove about a year ago in a sewage plan in Arizona, that had some backed up drains. Someone had to do it and get paid why not me. Oh by the way I looked for the brown trout and couldn't find them. LOL After the dive all commercial gear was incinerated $5000.00 Des-co Pot Dive hat as well as dry suites. Cannot even describe the smell.
 
rjpv:
I'm a microbiologist, which gives me a certain fatalistic approach to bacterial exposures...

Most of the many microbiological agents found in seawater are not a threat to a healthy diver. The only time it becomes a major concern is when diving near any sewage. Thats a definite no-no.


It does happen!
 
PaulSmithTek:
I dove about a year ago in a sewage plan in Arizona, that had some backed up drains. Someone had to do it and get paid why not me. Oh by the way I looked for the brown trout and couldn't find them. LOL After the dive all commercial gear was incinerated $5000.00 Des-co Pot Dive hat as well as dry suites. Cannot even describe the smell.
"CRAP!" Mine just got deconed and put right back into service after both dives. :mooner: I guess that's the difference a few years make. :D

The Navy Crude dive I did ate all the rubber parts within a month so everything was new in the end. Ummmm, not in the end like the ends above. :D Some of the rubber turned into a gooy tar that stuck to everything it got close to.

Gary D.
 
W.C. Fields water quotes
"I don't drink water; fish @#$% in it." - W. C. Fields

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W. C. Fields

"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes." -W. C. Fields

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming." -W. C. Fields

"Just because something's toxic doesn't mean it's not tasty." - Matthew J. Siske.
 

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