When you gotta go you gotta go...right? ;)

[Sirenita]

Jokes on you, Sirenita. We were all lying to try to get you to admit it. Ha!

Damnit.
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[spectrum]

Yup, it's perfectly normal.

One reason is immersion diuresis (sp?). Essentially your body senes the cold, even if you are seemingly comfortable you are always diving in an energy depleting state. As a survival means your body moves fluids to your core. Your body recognizes a high fluid content in your core and your kidneys go into high gear. Next thing you know you have that need for relief. I find that it can come upon you suddenly as soon as you go vertical during or at the end of a dive. As you end a shore or boat dive floating or standing vertically you may want to take inventory and relax for a moment before getting out. I'm not a doctor so take my explanation FWIW.

This same phenomenon is one reason why hydration is so important to divers.

Pete

 

[TSandM]

Here's a little explanation from the DAN website, but it is pretty much as Pete explained.

 

[String]

there are two kinds of divers, those who admit to peeing in their wetsuits, and those who won't admit that they do.

Need to add another - those of us that use drysuits and therefore cant.

 

[TekDiveGirl]

Need to add another - those of us that use drysuits and therefore cant.

Now that's not true --

 

[do it easy]

Now that's not true --

I second that...

 

[RocketMan]

I have never pee'd in my wetsuit...but I have pee'd in one I borrowed...you don't think the person I borrowed it from pee'd in it do you...oh crap...but that's another subject

 

[freediver]

Just be sure and drink plenty of water so the color and odor doesn't give you away. If you tinkle in a rental suit and they find out, "urine" a gush of trouble! Doh! Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week!

 

[RikRaeder]

:yelclap:

 

[nolatom]

I bought a used wetsuit. I've now made it "my" wetsuit. Life is good.