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

I most certainly do not do that, as much for the sake of others as for myself. I use personal spit for defog and you know about sinus drainage, gah! I'd rather swap primaries than share a mask bucket. Ew ew ewwww
 
some time after the OW course I started to notice little transparent threads of goo which tend to come out of most person's regulators exhale valve. Yes that is saliva coming out of the regs continuously, it is understandable that one is drooling like mad when breathing very dry air all the time at depth.

Couple of times I tested breathing regulators for couple of minutes on dry land and got a small pond of spit forming on the table so yes they are full of someone else's spit when diving with them :popcorn:

anyway, I don't have any problem with primary donate. Almost all people in the world have herpes anyway and all persons are vaccinated against hepatitis A . and most other diseases don't transfer by kissing so should not be any problem as long as you don't compare reg donation with kissing your dive buddy... that would be a problem for most I think :coffee:
 
Do you rinse your mask in the communal mask-rinse bucket when you come up from a dive?
I don't think I had ever seen anyone rinsing the mask after the dive.
I would never ever rinse my mask in any communal bucket before a dive because I use my own spit. And if I have to rinse my mask after a dive, I would do it on the surface ie. before climbing back to the boat.
 
I've seen divers with cold sores (herpes simplex)

At least in the context of the original question, I would like to believe a diver knows he has a cold sore and would refrain from the training exercise.
 
My, we're fastidious these days. Not to wax nostalgic, but I am reminded of my first scuba class in the early 1980's, in which we had to perform mouth to mouth drills directly ON EACH OTHER'S MOUTHS! My best friend did it on me (gross) I did it on him, and the only two females in the class performed it on each other. The instructor was into realism.

Times have changed.
 
My, we're fastidious these days. Not to wax nostalgic, but I am reminded of my first scuba class in the early 1980's, in which we had to perform mouth to mouth drills directly ON EACH OTHER'S MOUTHS! My best friend did it on me (gross) I did it on him, and the only two females in the class performed it on each other. The instructor was into realism.

Times have changed.

Until recently we still taught, practiced and demonstrated in water AV whilst towing, which is mouth to nose, rather than mouth to mouth.

I remember one instructor many years ago saying
"Suck, Spit, and Blow". To clear the casualties nose!!!!!!
 
Until recently we still taught, practiced and demonstrated in water AV whilst towing, which is mouth to nose, rather than mouth to mouth.

I remember one instructor many years ago saying
"Suck, Spit, and Blow". To clear the casualties nose!!!!!!

ok, while i have absolutely no problem sharing a reg or even maybe swapping spit inocuously, but absolutely not to the suck, spit, and blow scenario. Nope, nunca, never. Just my hangup on chunks. And I eat dropped food off the carpet in my office so there's some perspective.
 
I would rather inject myself with AIDS than stick some strangers disease riddled regulator in my mouth.
This is beyond the pall; don't even say this! AIDS is a potentially fatal disease.

I have buddy breathed in many different situations, and never gotten sick from it. For Pete's sake, during the early decades of diving, this was the only method of sharing air (1945 to about 1975).

For my NAUI ITC in 1973, we instructor candidates had to do in-water mouth-to-mouth on each other while towing the "victim" through 200 yards of surf. I lost one of my Jet Fins, but completed the exercise. It was very instructive as to just how effective properly done mouth-to-mouth resuscitation actually is.

I have gotten very sick from diving in polluted water though. As a research diver for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife doing subtidal clam bed surveys, I incidentally drank some Tillamook Bay water that was apparently contaminated with sewage. That evening, I could not figure out which end of me to point at the toilet in the motel room--very bad situation, but I recovered.

My take-away:
--don't be overly concerned about sharing someone's mouthpiece/second stage in an out-of-air situation (simulated or real).
--don't dive in sewage-contaminated water (heed the official warnings).
--don't equate either situations with a potentially fatal disease.

SeaRat
 
And there’s a rumor that some people even pee in the water!
 
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