Lonefox
Contributor
Hi folks,
I've got a problem that is standing in the way of what could potentially be a great week of camping and scuba diving.
A freediving friend of mine regularly travels to a secluded cove and pitches a camp for a week or two, and dives all over the cove, he's invited my buddy and I along, and as we are into the whole wild camping thing, we are pretty keen on the idea.
There's one problem though, and that's cleaning the kit after the dive, I'm used to religeously soaking my kit in a bath of fresh water for a few hours after a days dive, and giving it a good swoosh around. The problem we have, is that we are limited by the amount of water we take with us, as we are not going to be very close to civilisation and my little 800cc car is going to be working hard just to carry all the dive gear, and 3 people. We have 4 cylinders, so I anticipate that we will be driving to get air fills once a day, but I'm not sure how keen the dive centre will be to use their facilities and let us clean our kit each day, particularly as other than air, we're not buying anything.
Does anyone have any viable solutions on how best we can keep our gear servicable for the week.
One option I did consider was a garden pressure washer, and a couple of 2 Gallon Bottles of water. I considered that should be enough to be able to spray the valves and important bits on the BC, and give the regs a good dunk.
Though wetsuits are likely to be spending the whole week salty and wet.
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.
I've got a problem that is standing in the way of what could potentially be a great week of camping and scuba diving.
A freediving friend of mine regularly travels to a secluded cove and pitches a camp for a week or two, and dives all over the cove, he's invited my buddy and I along, and as we are into the whole wild camping thing, we are pretty keen on the idea.
There's one problem though, and that's cleaning the kit after the dive, I'm used to religeously soaking my kit in a bath of fresh water for a few hours after a days dive, and giving it a good swoosh around. The problem we have, is that we are limited by the amount of water we take with us, as we are not going to be very close to civilisation and my little 800cc car is going to be working hard just to carry all the dive gear, and 3 people. We have 4 cylinders, so I anticipate that we will be driving to get air fills once a day, but I'm not sure how keen the dive centre will be to use their facilities and let us clean our kit each day, particularly as other than air, we're not buying anything.
Does anyone have any viable solutions on how best we can keep our gear servicable for the week.
One option I did consider was a garden pressure washer, and a couple of 2 Gallon Bottles of water. I considered that should be enough to be able to spray the valves and important bits on the BC, and give the regs a good dunk.
Though wetsuits are likely to be spending the whole week salty and wet.
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.
