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You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but this is some of the most uninformed advice I've read on this board in awhile.Being an adult and armed with the knowledge that you are able to hold your pee for more than an hour after using the facilities should make a pee valve a little silly unless you're planning a ludicrously long ranged deco dive. Just pee before you go and save your drysuit from an unnecessary hole.
If you lack the mental fortitude to hold your pee for more than a couple hours, perhaps you're in the wrong leisure activity or need to toughen up a little?
Hydration issues should be dealt with 12-24 hours before your dive, not in a cram session an hour before you're getting wet. Those who feel they need to chug 3 gallons of water an hour before a dive are probably making up for a long night's drinking and perhaps shouldn't be diving at all... or simply overdoing it.
Just my opinion...
Being an adult and armed with the knowledge that you are able to hold your pee for more than an hour after using the facilities should make a pee valve a little silly unless you're planning a ludicrously long ranged deco dive. Just pee before you go and save your drysuit from an unnecessary hole.
If you lack the mental fortitude to hold your pee for more than a couple hours, perhaps you're in the wrong leisure activity or need to toughen up a little?
Hydration issues should be dealt with 12-24 hours before your dive, not in a cram session an hour before you're getting wet. Those who feel they need to chug 3 gallons of water an hour before a dive are probably making up for a long night's drinking and perhaps shouldn't be diving at all... or simply overdoing it.
Just my opinion...
Really? I put one every mornng just in case the opportunity to dive might suddenly arise during the day...It kind of amazes me, given what I've read about the nuisance value of putting on the condom caths, that almost all my dive buddies use them just for our hour plus recreational dives.