And washing my gear for me is an amenity that I care absolutely nothing about, which is a good thing; as we have said, continually, there is no dive op who is the best op for everyone.
Dive company recommendation for Cozumel in August
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djanni
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cicopo
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Longer bottom times don't work for me either because that adds a longer SI which means my wife might see me by dinner rather than 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Now if I were going alone it would be a different story but in general we both make the trip.
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Pissy water? LOL! C'mon now the ocean is the world's largest toilet bowl! Some steril urine that may be in a wash tank? That's an absolute non-issue. The ONLY thing I tend to think about from time to time is the mouthpiece on my regulator that was rinsed in a common tank in the event someone else on the boat may be sick. That's easy enough to remedy... I'll take some drinking water from the boat or some sea water and rinse my mouthpiece and reg with it IF I SEE SOMEONE ON THE BOAT SNEEZING/SNIFFLING with a potential flu or cold but someone with the flu or a cold usually isn't diving. As such, I've never performed a secondary rinse of my mouthpiece on a boat.
You are far more apt to get an infection from an uncovered cut while diving (I always bring true WATERPROOF bandages on dive trips) or sustaining a cut from accidentally touching something sharp underwater. Having been stung by a stingray years ago which I was caught fishing and was trying to release without a hook left in its mouth, I can tell you the ocean is full of micobacteria we have not developed an immunity to (and how could we). A high dose of IV antibiotics followed by a course of strong oral antibiotics finally killed the infection caused by who knows what microbiotic cocktail I got injected with thanks to that stingray.
Oh, BTW... Any Stingray I've caught since gets cut off with the hook left in its mouth as it will rust away in a few days anyway. No more $1,500 spent on an ER visit and treatments with high power antibiotics. Swimming with the wild stingrays at Stingray City off Grand Caymen 25 years ago... Holding them, playing with them, and feeding them? I was a friggin' idiot touron back then who didn't know any better and it's not like that tour operator shared any of the risks involved!
I am rambling. Long story short... not worried about pissy water in a rinse tank.
My brother-in-law once got scratched by a tooth of a barracuda he was trying to de-hook and he had a very similar experience. Pain, swelling, inflammation, antibiotics... it went on for weeks. No fun at all.
I could not help but think 'yuck'.
Personally, I do not treat the environment like a toilet bowl or garbage can to the best of what is possible.
I'm also quite strict about hygiene, and much prefer to thoroughly rinse my gear myself in the cleanest water available, and often wince just a little when full bags get piled in upon each other into what is already, well, murky water.
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Yep, I leave my BC, fins, and pony bottle with my Op, but I don't want anyone's pee on my suit, much less my reg, mask, beanie, etc. I do my own soaking and rinsing in the room: reg, camera, computer, mask first, then beanie, suit and booties last. And I don't trust anyone with my PLB & canister; I don't want curious person setting it off.
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