Salt
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I started wearing a little neoprene cap on my dive vacations. It works great.
As background: when I was doing a lot of diving getting my AOW and Rescue on Utila and then doing some fun diving on Roatan, I noticed some funny things going on with my body. But basically fatigue.
I posted here on this forum at the time trying to understand some of the things going on in my body. All kinds of things happen having to do with temperature and depth and other things.
I concluded that despite being in the Caribbean and wearing a shorty wetsuit, my body was getting cold. Easy enough to happen: I have an thin/athletic build with low body fat; and we are down there for 45-55 minutes x two dives. I often get cold - not shivering cold but cold enough - and end up crossing my arms and holding them against my body.
I learned that being cold is what makes you have to pee. If you are truly warm, you don't have to pee at all ! And when you do all that peeing, you can be dehydrated when you get back to shore. (Make sure to drink liquids on that surface interval.)
So, wearing a neoprene cap has allowed me to stay warmer, be less dehydrated, and feel better when I am done my dives.
As background: when I was doing a lot of diving getting my AOW and Rescue on Utila and then doing some fun diving on Roatan, I noticed some funny things going on with my body. But basically fatigue.
I posted here on this forum at the time trying to understand some of the things going on in my body. All kinds of things happen having to do with temperature and depth and other things.
I concluded that despite being in the Caribbean and wearing a shorty wetsuit, my body was getting cold. Easy enough to happen: I have an thin/athletic build with low body fat; and we are down there for 45-55 minutes x two dives. I often get cold - not shivering cold but cold enough - and end up crossing my arms and holding them against my body.
I learned that being cold is what makes you have to pee. If you are truly warm, you don't have to pee at all ! And when you do all that peeing, you can be dehydrated when you get back to shore. (Make sure to drink liquids on that surface interval.)
So, wearing a neoprene cap has allowed me to stay warmer, be less dehydrated, and feel better when I am done my dives.