well...at least it's novel!

[buff]

While I was looking at dry suits, I saw the option of a "pee valve" or a relief zipper option. Now, these suits tend to cost more and I tend to have less. So, being a registered nurse, and since necessity is the mother of invention, I came up with this idea-though I haven't implemented it ....yet.
PUT DEPENDS ON!!!!!!!
That's right-adult diapers.
The elderly have used them for years and they work(I know I changed enough of em'). They can hold "a ton" of water(don't know exactly how much but it's a lot) and prevent the patient from getting wet....so why not a diver?? You pee in your wetsuit-don't tell me you don't!!!!! That was hard to overcome at first but now the river flows like the great Mississip-RIGHT??? This idea will work. Now, all I need is some willing idiot(I mean diver) to try it out and get back to me. I would try it myself but since I am the proponent of the idea I'm afraid that my positive bias would skew the test results.
So who is the first "pioneer" of this revolutionary concept in diving?

 

[syruss32]

I'm your man, but you will need to get me the dry suit first. I would like a mobby's self donning 2 layer dry suit in a 4x size.

This is a scientific study, but I am willing to give you my test results totally without charge if you pick up the suit.

BUT: I have to insist that in testing I be the only one to change my diaper as I am a very shy person.

 

[scuba_adventurer]

I know some commercial diving guys who have used them, but they all use pee valves now. There is probably a reason that babies cry when they have wet diapers. I would not want to wear one.

 

[Lost Yooper]

 

[Kane(adian)]

buff, quick before syruss tests this, tell him ONLY #1, not #2.

 

[buff]

As long as it's in YOUR dry suit....#1 or #2 is fine with me.
I'm not surprised that someone has already thought of my idea. When I was little, I told my dad. "Do you know what the most common way to become a millionaire in the U.S. is?" "No" he replied. "Inherit it" I said, and added, "And from where I'm sitting it looks like you better get on the ball or I'll never be rich!!!!!" Well, I'm afraid my children are destined for the same fate.


Mike

 

[scubaturek]

Im surprised nobody said this yet, but the use of Depends has been around in the tech community for quite some time. Especially with women (they can't use a p-valve). Some guys are uncomfortable with the catheter (condom) if worn for a long time, so they stick with the diapers.

BTW, buff, you don't use a relief zipper in the water

Joe