I did edit my previous message slightly to add in some more detail. Now I'll add in a little bit more.
Around where I live there is a ton of divable water. I guess there is a decent sized scuba contingency but I'm the only freediver in the area. That being said I watch where I dive. I try my hardest to avoid boatable waters. If I do get on lakes with a lot of boat traffic, I watch when I get on the lake to avoid the times when most people are out boating.
This puts me diving on one particular man made lake that is used for flood control, no motor boat accessibility and gas powered boats aren't allowed anyways. It receives a lot of its water from runoff from the nearby alpine ski area, err the chemicals used to increase how high the temperature can go and they can still make snow.
The other lake I frequent quite often, also 5 minutes from home is on the opposite side of ski area and is spring fed. I believe it more than likely also sees some of the same chemical laden runoff as well.
Now why does one person get affected and another person doesn't...skin sensitivity to the chemicals in the water. One person may have a higher sensitivity level than you do.
As an example. When I was a kid I could always tell when summer arrived. I would always get a nice rash, heat rash, that would break out on my stomach. I haven't had that in years now...I guess my sensitivity level must have changed over time.
One idea to try, the one I'm planning to use..Emotional Freedom Technique. It's free to learn and the ways you could use it to improve your freediving are too numerous to count. I'll start with seeing if I can permanently get rid of this stupid rash and go on being able to enjoy freediving the rest of the summer.
By the way, last year it did seem like after a couple of weeks the rash disappeared on its own. Almost like I developed a bit of tolerance to it.
Ryan
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