Scuba Do
Contributor
I plan on diving in a lake this weekend. Last weekend I skinned my knee pretty badly. It still needs bandaging, but I think it stopped oozing yesterday. Here is the issue - one of my dive buddies is adamant that I shouldn't dive with this "open wound" as I will attract all kinds of "microbes" and "parasites" that will infect it and cause all manner of bad things to happen to me. That sounds like such a crock to me (I know I have had cuts before when diving, and have even gotten a cut while diving), but he is so adamant about this that I thought I'd ask, just to see if I am completely wrong. Thoughts?