Pond Clean Up.... seeking advice...

[cummings66]

You know I think people pissing in a pond is not much worse than the animals that do the same thing. Consider what's in our lakes we dive in, dead animals, waste products from drainage into it (you don't want to know) and who knows what else.

I know we have E. coli warnings out for some lakes in the area every so often, so if we're diving in that crud what's a little piss? No big deal.

That's not to say I'd dive a pond, I won't. I used to free dive them as a younger person and got plenty of horrible stinky muck on me and it's not for me. Some ponds are as bad as cesspools and you won't find me in one of them, well one time but that's another story.

For anybody that dives them more power to you and be careful.

 

[erparamedic]

Uhhhh.... don't we all pee in our wetsuits when diving anyway???? I know it keeps me warm! Think about all that pee in the quarries when the classes and treasure hunts and such are going on!! That's why the water seems to "get warmer"! HA!

 

[Gary D.]

Uhhhh.... don't we all pee in our wetsuits when diving anyway???? I know it keeps me warm! Think about all that pee in the quarries when the classes and treasure hunts and such are going on!! That's why the water seems to "get warmer"! HA!

Me peeing in my suit isn't a problem. But how would you feel about me peeing in your suit? Different story hu.

If your diving wet I'd think twice, three, four times about disturbing that bottom silt. Not only does the silt in general create it’s own biohazards but you don’t have a clue as to what people have tossed in there.

Do you have a Meth problem in your area? If you do I wouldn’t even swim in it. You can bet there is a boxed lab or two plus the possibility of discarded chemicals in there. Getting cut buy the broken class from a Meth container can be deadly.

That is only one of thousands of hazards that those cute little ponds can deliver.

PSD teams have lost divers in both training and working dives from those cute little ponds. Some teams have even lost more than one diver. They can be killing fields.

I'm not posting this to scare anyone off from diving ponds but they can be very dangerous places to dive. A lot of safety precautions need to be taken.

Gary D.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Is the pond part of the neighborhood storm control system? Runoff from parking areas and lawns can dump various vehicle fluids as well as weed killers/fertilizers into the ecosystem.
Ber :lilbunny: