It finally happened: I peed in the dry suit

[Kevin Floyd]

Ever since I started diving dry I have always been worried about having to pee while in it...because...you know....everyone owes in their wetsuit.
After I did a 75min dive where our guide got lost and we had to then do a 45min surface swim to get back to the dock when I needed to pee 20min into the dive. I knew I was going to add a P valve when I go my own dry suit.
Fast forward...everything has been fine, I use wide band condom catheters, I plumb in the p valve every time I wear the dry suit. I haven’t had any issues...until yesterday. The catheter must have come off during the dive at some point.
So what did I do differently this time? I didn’t put the catheter on first thing in the morning when I got out of bed. I was running late and put in on in the port-a-can after I had started sweeting. Lesson here, make the catheter this first thing you put on.

 

[The Chairman]

Yeah... of the few times I wore my drysuit, this has happened to me.

 

[lexvil]

It not a perfect system, close but not perfect. I’ve had them leak bad from back pressure when the tip kinked, that one hasn’t happened since I started the end off so the barb in just short of intruding. As a buddie once said, once it leaks just keep peeing, the clean up is the same either way.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

You guys are gross! I just remembered why I went back to custom quality wetsuits.
When I was diving dry I had a thick commercial suit that had a pee zipper installed. Best thing ever. I would just go before and after the dive and never had problems. The sweating is what I couldn’t stand. Diuresis management is also a thing.

 

[lexvil]

You guys are gross! I just remembered why I went back to custom quality wetsuits.
When I was diving dry I had a thick commercial suit that had a pee zipper installed. Best thing ever. I would just go before and after the dive and never had problems. The sweating is what I couldn’t stand. Diuresis management is also a thing.

Happiness is the warm feeling spreading down your leg, at the end of the last dive of the day

 

[tridacna]

For me, it all “Depends”. Nothing like standing in the line at Costco with a large box on the checkout table.

 

[Kevin Floyd]

The other big lesson I learned was that the P valve is the last resort. It’s there for an emergency.

 

[lexvil]

The other big lesson I learned was that the P valve is the last resort. It’s there for an emergency.

Don’t succumb to fear, it’s there for pleasure!

 

[Kevin Floyd]

Don’t succumb to fear, it’s there for pleasure!

I don’t even know how to respond to that

 

[Bowers]

Im surprised several on here say they’re going back to wetsuits or try not to use the p-valve. The p-valve is the best thing to happen to my drysuit. I dive dry as much as possible and use my p-valve a lot without complaint. I trim the condom cath tip and make sure my tubing is lined up right (pointing up toward my chest then back down) and it works really well.