Why peeing in your wetsuit is a GOOD thing.

[charlesml3]

Depends baby, depends. Those things are awesome, let me tell you!

-Charles

 

[wardric]

the body tries to keep it's temperature at a constant. With a full bladder, the body will have to heat this liquid to keep it warm. It takes a lot of energy to heat liquids. Peeing gets rid of a quantity of liquid that your body wont have to keep warm so you should be warmer after you pee. During winter expeditions in the snow, the same principle applies, except you add this one: dont eat yellow snow.

But since I have a drysuit, I pee before and after the dive, drink a lot of water and avoid coffee and colas (especially diet) and only once did I shorten a dive because I was dancing the pee dance down there!!!

gotta go pee now

 

[konasdad]

Undercurrent had an article recently about a dive op in Hawaii, Scuba Shack, that bans peeing. Here is a reader's response:

This is pretty funny to see this again.

A few days after this came out in Undercurrent 2 friends and I were at the Scuba Shack checking in with them for a 2 tank dive the next day. Charlie (the owner) was there and some how during the conversation the comments came up. I know that I didn't bring it up because I didn't know anything about it before then. Well, for the next 10 minute or so we were just there listening about the carpeting on the decks and the smell and and and... He wasn't just talking about the rental wetsuits but everybodies. Finally, he mentioned that then next day the crew would tell us about this and that we would have to agree or forget about going. We were certainly not expecting that and we were somewhere between dumbfounded and amused.

The next day we got on the boat and went to Molokini and then off Makena with no further thought about peeing in our wetsuits. Not one word about it from the crew and I even forgot to keep track of my pee!

Of course later that night we remember the rant and had a good laugh about it again.

It was and still is worth a good laugh from time to time.

-Mark-

 

[MeiLing]

This is pretty funny to see this again.

A few days after this came out in Undercurrent 2 friends and I were at the Scuba Shack checking in with them for a 2 tank dive the next day. Charlie (the owner) was there and some how during the conversation the comments came up. I know that I didn't bring it up because I didn't know anything about it before then. Well, for the next 10 minute or so we were just there listening about the carpeting on the decks and the smell and and and... He wasn't just talking about the rental wetsuits but everybodies. Finally, he mentioned that then next day the crew would tell us about this and that we would have to agree or forget about going. We were certainly not expecting that and we were somewhere between dumbfounded and amused.

The next day we got on the boat and went to Molokini and then off Makena with no further thought about peeing in our wetsuits. Not one word about it from the crew and I even forgot to keep track of my pee!

Of course later that night we remember the rant and had a good laugh about it again.

It was and still is worth a good laugh from time to time.

-Mark-

So, did you or didn't you??????

 

[almitywife]

So, did you or didn't you??????

oh come on MeiLing... you know how it goes.....

if he says no he is lying


and ban peeing i always wanted to be a rebel... i may have found my thing

 

[Hemlon]

oh come on MeiLing... you know how it goes.....

if he says no he is lying


and ban peeing i always wanted to be a rebel... i may have found my thing

I'll do it too. We'll be urination rebels!

 

[almitywife]

a new group of divers...

i can imagine the biker jackets now with the pee'ers motif on the back

people 4 peeing
P4PEE

???

 

[Tigerman]

The urine bandits, :rofl:

 

[konasdad]

So, did you or didn't you??????

I was so scared when I got on board that I peed in my trunks! So, technically, No!

not I my wetsuit.

-Mark-

 

[BTravlin]

Wetsuit Whizzers