wetsuit poll

[ibnygator]

Diving in tropical waters in a shorty, it's mighty easy to relieve thyself and kinda shake the leg of the suit to "exchange fluids" with the surrounding water. I find it quite a different thing though, when diving in a full 7mm wetsuit. What goes in, stays in...

 

[scuberd]

ok guys and gals, I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but I am changing my stance on the subject. After a recent dive where I did my thing, I stank. Not just general scuba stink that you get anyways but a truly obsene scent. Walking around Monterey during a long surface interval and smelling as bad as I did, I will start showing restraint. I'm not saying I won't do it again, but I will keep it a minimum. Sorry to be a traitor to my own cause, but personal agreeable odors are more important to me

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

scuberd once bubbled...
ok guys and gals, I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but I am changing my stance on the subject. After a recent dive where I did my thing, I stank. Not just general scuba stink that you get anyways but a truly obsene scent. Walking around Monterey during a long surface interval and smelling as bad as I did, I will start showing restraint. I'm not saying I won't do it again, but I will keep it a minimum. Sorry to be a traitor to my own cause, but personal agreeable odors are more important to me

What had you been eating or drinking the night before?

Marc

 

[JDostal]

I've heard all the stuff on peeing in wetsuits...the one about two types of divers, the fact that it warms you up, etc.

Cold water really makes you have to pee - wow, does it ever.

I usually pee right before I dive, so I won't have to in my suit. I have ended dives almost running out of the water so that I could get to the nearest tree.

I haven't yet peed in my wetsuit - not yet anyway. I was in the Bahamas a month ago and I had to pee sooooo bad on one dive. It was a great dive, I had been down about an hour already and we were still going strong. I TRIED to pee in my suit it hurt so bad. I just couldn't do it!! I really, really wanted to but it just wouldn't happen.

Plus, my wetsuit seals really, really, really well. I hardly get any water flush. So, if I were to pee in it...I'd be swimming in it for the duration of the dive....plus, if I peeled out of my suit on the boat, the contents of my suit would be all over the boat. Kind of disgusting.

I guess this is kind of a good thing though because I just got my drysuit this weekend and I really don't want to pee in that =)

 

[leadweight]

what's next?

 

[tacohandler]

peeing-no problem. now taking a crap in a wet suit would be heroic.

 

[scuberd]

tacohandler once bubbled...
peeing-no problem. now taking a crap in a wet suit would be heroic.

a wetsuit warhammer

that got me thinkin..... =-)

 

[SueMermaid]

There are two kinds of divers:

-Those who pee in their wetsuits
-Those who lie about it.

 

[cranekim]

If you see me upside down under the surface. I'm cleaning wetsuit, exhaling trough opening the neck seal or hood. Why? I was there for diving, not for struggle with calling by nature.

 

[the sharkman]

Peeing in a 3mm suit, no problem. Peeing in a 7mm suit, sucks. Unfortunately, cold water makes me have to pee. My wife hates the fact that I pee in my suit. She REALLY hates it when I yell to the DM's on the dive boat "Hurry up and get in, I have to pee!"

:guitar: