Rubber Peeing!

[DiverD]

Sharky I don't blame you! Actualy this is such a long thread, here's a portion of my original response 5 pages back.

I pee without question. You're in the ocean submerged in water, it's not like you're wetting your pants at a party or peeing in a bathtub (neither of which I do).

Hope that clears the air (water?).



Hmm, after going back to it, I had to edit my own original post:

"its lot like your wetting... " to it's not like you're wetting..."

Maybe this is where the original confusion is comming from. :duh I really should proof read these things better before posting

 

[1 Tadpole]

Ahhhh!

I christened my suit last night during a night dive! I'm somewhat new to the sport and it was my first time having to do it in my suit. I was reluctant at first but I had to go. So I let it go! Oh what a feeling. I had to laugh out loud after the expansion and surge of warmth. I felt soooo much better. It took a little bit to flush out of my suit but much happier the rest of the dive.

So I have, and will again when nature calls!

 

[Kim Eslinger]

Tadpole - WELCOME TO THE CLUB MAN!!!! I'm proud. So proud. You are a member of a proud and long line of fantastic divers who understand the sheer joy associated with being one with the water. Congratulations!

 

[1 Tadpole]

Thanks Kim!

I heard a mountian guide once say that if you hold it, your body burns calories to keep it warm. So by letting it go you might just be conserving calories to be spent elsewhere!?

And, is pee really sterile?

 

[OceanSwimmer]

Yes, 1 Tadpole, if you are healthy, your pee is sterile. It contains lots of chemicals per se....and once it hits the outside, it is no longer sterile...the other thing to consider is the fact that pee decomposes into ammonia.
The smell of ripe wetsuits is -- shall I say -- impressive; in my opinion, a negative impression...but it's your suits, so certainly each to his/her own!
Hope all you pee-happy types keep the Dettol handy!!!

 

[Poida]

It's only taken 5 months for Tadpole to get his answer, but thanks Ocean Swimmer. The question is, if Tadpole thought his pee may be sterile what did he intend to do with it if he found it was. Also if pee turns to ammonia, isn't that a cleaner?? Whoever suggested that you pee in the shower may have discovered a cheap cleaner. Move over Mr Muscle. And does Firefox realise what he has done here. To pee or not to pee. That is the question.
Or, better an empty house than a bad tennant.

 

[Pablo]

peeing... peeing... peeing... detroll, peeing... peeing... peeing... detroll, peeing...

Well, he has been a charming and warming company for all this years... but for the first time on my new Picasso mimic I'm coming up with weird spots...

They start as a painful red irritation, developing in a couple of days a nasty white head.

Diving a long weekend becomes an agony... with an average of two or three at dive, some of them have a chance to develop behind the knees and under the arms... Pain!

I found that if I apply an antibiotic cream since the first symptoms, the white cap doesn't develop, but still hurts plenty!

Has anyone seen that before?

 

[scrounger]

Used to have similar problems from sailing everyday, it was a rash from the salt water. It was very common with all of us who were wet a couple hours a day. I don't get rashes from the picasso so i cant help you with that. sorry i cant be of more help
Lance

 

[Poida]

Reminds me of a cruel trick you play on a mate when you see him out at night with a drop dead gorgeous chick. Jealousy sets in and you hate to think he is going to score, so you say. G'day mate how's your rash, has it cleared up yet?
He won't score.
God I hate myself sometimes.

 

[Pablo]

Be careful, some chicks have a nasty tendency find some kind of enjoyment busting any kind of spot with they sharp nails ... Yack! and painful... but try to sop them!!!
Even more enoying when they lurk at yack skin growth on other persons with the same eyes any sparo have when seeing a 30 pound snapper!!!

Could be some nasty think in NZ waters: Back on Canary islands or he Mediterranean I never get or seen anything like it.

 

[mishu1984]

wherent you guys tought to go potty b4 leaving the house???

 

[BatRay]

busting spots

That's pretty gross. Sadly, it's true. Not me personally, but it does happen, :yack

 

[Tommy Engfors]

When seeing this thread pop up on the list, again and again, I quietly ask myself wether it will ever fade away. Just when you thought you had read the last gross post, another one pops up to top it. I wonder if a topic of this kind would ever be discussed outside the diving community...? There seems to be no shame here either...

Well. To balance the madness a bit - I have no intention of ever peeing in my wetsuit. Ever.

Thank you.

 

[Poida]

G'day Tommy

Does wetsuit peeing conversations occur outside diving? Well Tommy I have seen no evidence of it. I used to play a bit of tennis and then I was marathon running for a while. Nup, I can assure you that tennis players and marathon runners do not pee in their wetsuits.
In fact I can't think of any other sport where you are immersed 10 metres + below the surface of the ocean in a wetsuit.
So Tommy in answer to your question we are a select group of people who have the knowledge to discuss this subject.

It would be interesting to add science to this debate. Take a look at the people who do pee, and thems wot don't, and does their location in the world make a difference to their desire to pee.
For example yesterday, 21 March our temperature was 40 degree C. We are advised to and do drink a lot of water to prevent dehydration. Now we go diving and plunge ourselves into 18 degrees of water. What our bodies don't use, it will want to expel, and produce an enormous desire to expel it to the point where it will make the owner of the unwanted pee very uncomfortable. Hence we pee.

In if you lived in a colder country like Sweden, I doubt it would be necessary to drink excess amounts of water to ward off dehydration, and therefore would not be diving with an excess of body fluids with the result that the desire to pee is not so great.
Oh well I'd better get some work done, or I will soon I'm dying for a pee.

 

[Pablo]

We could actually bring the discussion to a more productive ground:

Lets say a contest... The USA army does this kind of thing: we need a new technology, we then do a public contest to find the best solution out of all the available brains.

I don't think anyone (unless you dive on cold cold waters) like to pee on himself... But the only actual solution seems to be wear one of this funny looking valves: we then need to have better ideas... must be something easy to glue on a small cut at the right spot, and that could enable us to open the wet suit and relive ourselves. But need to be discrete in of to be wear at any place with out particular comments.

The winer will have the huge satisfaction to save to all of us a lot of warm griefs... and Detroll. Or maybe somebody is willing to put a prize on the solution! I'm sure that if a couple of C4 where on the jackpot, we could see ideas raining on this thread.

Apnea suppose to be good for brain developments: make you smarter: Prove it!

 

[Kim Eslinger]

I'd just like to state that I still think that peeing in a wet suit is one of those "accepted" things about diving. Its up there with spitting in your mask, puking over the side of a boat, breathing off a regulator that you know someone else just had in their mouth, using your dive knife to cut up your apple (or whatever), and telling your friend that they have a nice bit of snot hanging. In what other community are we this open and this laid back about the social mores expected on shore? I'm just curious. I tend to think that as a result of this divers simply understand the little joys of life a little more. For the record, if someone could come up with a viable, non bulky pee-valve for us women in dry suits I would be eternally grateful!

 

[Poida]

Hi Kim
I was going to make a comment about ladies pee valves. But I think I'll just sit here, chuckling to myself.
I'm sick.

 

[Kim Eslinger]

Well i'm glad I made you laugh. Glad you got the joke, but I was mostly serious. Some of us simply despise the idea of wearing depends or other "diaper" like things under our dry suits!!! AURGH!

 

[Dick Splash]

Found this
http://www.divegirl.com/wee.html

 

[Kim Eslinger]

Joys of Diving

Just thought you all might get a good chuckle over the fact that in my office the phones have LCD screens identifying each worker when being called by them. My caller ID was changed two days ago to "P Valve" by a coworker who is NOT a diver, and who just happened across this set of posts and found them disturbing. After much discussion (my attempts to explain the discussion here on DB) :head he decided that it was just too disgusting to leave on my Caller ID.....So now I'm just "deep blue" ......maybe we divers really ARE just a little bit different.