Alot of it depends on where I've been diving...salt or fresh water, silt or sand, clean fresh water or high alkaline.
If I've been to Blue Lagoon where the waters PH is super high, I sit and scrub every suface of my gear with a scrub brush. The water there will eat the chrome off your regs really quick. We keep fresh clean water rinse buckets handy when we're onsite and don't let the alkaline water dry on any surface.
Depending on your brand of 2nd stage, I take mine apart and clean all the sand and silt out of it. That same alkaline water is also very silty. That powder fine stuff seeps into places you didn't know you or your gear had, no matter how careful you are.
We have a big plastic barrel that we fill with water. Everything goes into this barrel and soaks for up to an hour...depending.
Normally...about an hour will do it. While we're doing such a thorough job of cleaning gear, we're also inspecting it to make sure there's nothing to cause a potential problem next time.
If I've been to Blue Lagoon where the waters PH is super high, I sit and scrub every suface of my gear with a scrub brush. The water there will eat the chrome off your regs really quick. We keep fresh clean water rinse buckets handy when we're onsite and don't let the alkaline water dry on any surface.
Depending on your brand of 2nd stage, I take mine apart and clean all the sand and silt out of it. That same alkaline water is also very silty. That powder fine stuff seeps into places you didn't know you or your gear had, no matter how careful you are.
We have a big plastic barrel that we fill with water. Everything goes into this barrel and soaks for up to an hour...depending.
Normally...about an hour will do it. While we're doing such a thorough job of cleaning gear, we're also inspecting it to make sure there's nothing to cause a potential problem next time.