hnladue
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OK then you rinse your gear in fresh water?? You mean lake water?? That fish pee in??? So therefore you're washing you regs in fish pee.
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DBailey:Going back to the dishes conversation, would you fell comfortable in just dunking your dishes in the ocean then eating off them?
miketsp:I normally dunk my regs as I get off the boat and then wash the mouthpieces well when I get home or back to the hotel, rubbing with soap and warm water. I figure it's more important to get as much salt off as soon as possible.
Quite honestly I've smelled much higher concentrations of pee in my regs on those occasions when my regs stayed in my dive bag on the boat overnight and other people's bags were placed on top of mine, dripping the pure stuff.
I'm not concerned about hygeine.. but it does concern me that I could be rinsing my reg in a concentrated solution of urine and human filthWJL:jonnythan,
I admit that your thought experiment creates some unpleasant associations, but here's a real experiment for you: take a drop of water from the water you dive in and look at it under a microscope. You will see literally millions of little live and dead things inhabiting that drop. If you're real concerned about hygene you should worry more about the water in the ocean than in the rinse tank. And since we're all diving without dying of the plague right and left it just shows that there isn't much to worry about in that department. Your immune system can handle the load just fine.
But I still rinse off my regs again when I get them home. So I'm an inconsistent hypocrite.
Hank49:NO way. I'd wipe the seawater off with yesterday's T shirt, or someone else's clean one if they weren't looking.