Regulators changing mouths

[tursiops]

I would rather inject myself with AIDS than stick some strangers disease riddled regulator in my mouth.

Do you rinse your mask in the communal mask-rinse bucket when you come up from a dive?

 

[gbf]

Do you rinse your mask in the communal mask-rinse bucket when you come up from a dive?

Nope.

can you say " pink eye"?

 

[tursiops]

One should note that traditional buddy-breathing also uses the same regulator, and PADI Divemaster candidates must do this as one of their exercises.

 

[hammet]

one more reason for alternate donate... even if it is just rehearsing.

 

[tursiops]

Nope.

can you say " pink eye"?

And all manner of colds and infections....lot of snot in that bucket.....

 

[Ben_3]

I dont recall hearing anything on agencies saying not to share during exercises for hygiene purposes. Might want to e-mail them on that one.

 

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

one more reason for alternate donate... even if it is just rehearsing.

If you dive with long hose then that is not even an option.

 

[TMHeimer]

Rinse bucket---Purpose? To get salt water off mask immediately if it will be a while before you get it home to rinse? To rinse it in between dives for some reason?
When shore diving I do my 2 dives, drive home and rinse everything.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The only time I ever got grossed out doing air share drills was with a person who smoked like a chimney.
I could taste the ash tray in the reg. It was pretty gross and was a pretty harsh reality check that the reg was indeed just in his mouth a second prior. We were doing primary donate.

Yeah, what if you had to share air out of the same reg with a super hot chick? Or other super physically attractive person whatever the combo.
How is that any different from a germ perspective? It’s all in your head.

What about doing mouth to mouth to revive someone? Does that gross you out?
Are air shares any different in a time of crisis?

If you’re phobic then maybe primary donate or buddy breathing isn’t for you.

 

[chillyinCanada]

I know I have gone diving even though I had a scratchy throat or some other sign of a possible cold coming on.

I've seen divers with cold sores (herpes simplex)

In the way way back days, I had my own mouth pieces for rentals but very shortly bought my own regs.