DAN: Sanitize equipment with 10% bleach solution.

[nohappy]

DAN ENCOURAGES DIVERS AND DIVE OPERATORS TO PROPERLY DISINFECT DIVE GEAR
Quoted from DAN

Equipment can be effectively sanitized by submerging it in a 10% bleach solution or using a cleaning product such as Steramine™ tablets or any other quaternary ammonium compound. Be sure to use these products according to the manufacturer's directions and then rinse the gear with fresh water.

I have two questions:

1. Won't 10% bleach solution be too high for diving equipment like regulator? Would the diving manufacturer agree with that?
2. Won't 10% bleach solution be too high for the stuff that you're going to put in your mouth like mouthpiece?

 

[broncobowsher]

1) no idea
2) not a problem. It's a rinse, not a drink.

 

[Landau]

2) I’d recommend a really long, long rinse in fresh water after 10% bleach. 10 percent bleach has about 6000 times more chlorine than swim pool water.

 

[rabe]

1) it seems to aggressive to me: 10% bleach is a lpot
2) is not gonna kill you, but is gonna to have a terrible taste an smell

I used to use some disinfectant to rinse my regs, but because of the after taste, I gave up.

 

[nohappy]

@Landau @rabe DAN did suggest to rinse with freshwater after that in the article. Thank you. The first one question is the one that I'm more concerned about.

 

[MargaritaMike]

30 years ago while in the middle east we washed all of our vegetables and fruit in a clorox/water mix. Then we would give it a light water rinse. It never tasted bad. The water wasn't always trustworthy, but we didn't die.

A 10% bleach won't even come close to hurting you. You can always rinse with potable fresh water.

Cheers - M²

 

[chillyinCanada]

Personally, I love the smell of Dettol in the morning.

 

[D_Fresh]

Personally, I love the smell of Dettol in the morning.

Smells like....Victory?

 

[CuriousRambler]

I used to sanitize brewery equipment and bottles with 10% bleach, then literally as quick as I could completely submerge in fresh water and pull it back out was all the rinse it got.

Same with washing apples to press for cider.

I did say *used to* with the brewing, because after many exposures, the bleach could cause pitting in glass and give bacteria a place to potentially build. Honestly don't know if that's a real issue, but it sounds bad, so we switched to Kinder, gentler (and incredibly more expensive, naturally) commercially available sanitizers. For the time and money invested into a 10 gallon beer batch, the cost increase was negligible. I wouldn't want to be burning up expensive sanitizer after every dive though.

 

[Nick Ward]

Best stuff to use is baby bottle steriliser... either bottled or tablet form.

perfect strength and doesn’t need a rinse off afterwards