DaleC
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...and they say drinking and diving don't go together.
S Drill Etiquette
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On a recent liveaboard, I was hanging on the line below the ladder doing a safety stop, when I noticed all of this large particulate in the water, then I started to put the pieces together ...
... hmmm, crew is aboard, probably doing their domestic-type duties while guests are below, heads all have macerators ...
... bummer :depressed:
Sas
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It's funny that I see this topic now as I was describing yesterday to my partner about some skills I had been practicing for a course during the day. The skills involved doing a bunch of things whilst buddy breathing, and I was practicing with two buddies. My partner goes 'wait does that mean you are sharing the one mouth piece???' and got a bit freaked out about it and said I better not bring home any germs! But basically I don't really dive with people I wouldn't be happy sharing a reg with. I do S-drills fairly often and I do modified S drills before nearly every dive.
There's only one time I wouldn't have been happy sharing a reg with a diver, and that was when I was buddied up with a guy who had a mouthful of cold sores. I've never had one and have a bit of a phobia about them. I was too polite to say anything and was thinking 'oh I REALLY hope I don't run out of air and grab his primary or something!' Actually he ended up running out of air on this dive, I gave him my octopus (I was not using primary donate in those days) and I soaked that thing in antiseptic for hours and hours after. :shocked2:
There's only one time I wouldn't have been happy sharing a reg with a diver, and that was when I was buddied up with a guy who had a mouthful of cold sores. I've never had one and have a bit of a phobia about them. I was too polite to say anything and was thinking 'oh I REALLY hope I don't run out of air and grab his primary or something!' Actually he ended up running out of air on this dive, I gave him my octopus (I was not using primary donate in those days) and I soaked that thing in antiseptic for hours and hours after. :shocked2:
Enough people have weird diseases like hepatitis that I am not going to put their regulator in my mouth unless there is no alternative, germaphobic, whatever. I practice buddy breathing etc with my wife, perhaps a small number of friends who I know where they put their parts, beyond that, no thanks. N
Classic Bob!
I can just see the predive brief, everybody got a buddy?........ HeeHaw!
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CamG
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Greetings SB faithful and first of all interesting thread Spectrum. It has generated some awesome quotes and definitely made me think the etiquette thing through.
Bottom line Bob Grateful diver wins the day! Funniest response I have read in many days! I laughed so hard! This and many others have made my day so much better!
My opinion is pretty simple I would donate if need be, and accept if need be.
When I am assisting training or doing guided tours in which I am usually carrying a pony to donate as well. In a few of the training classes I have assisted with this has come up before. Some students felt the need to use mouth wash post dive but no one has gotten sick yet to my knowledge.
I feel safer doing air share drills in the water than when demonstrating on the dock or pool side. But it is with only one or two others who I know very well. No worries.
Great thread and awesome quote that I am sure will be seen many times in the near future!
CamG Keep diving....keep training....keep learning!
Bottom line Bob Grateful diver wins the day! Funniest response I have read in many days! I laughed so hard! This and many others have made my day so much better!
My opinion is pretty simple I would donate if need be, and accept if need be.
When I am assisting training or doing guided tours in which I am usually carrying a pony to donate as well. In a few of the training classes I have assisted with this has come up before. Some students felt the need to use mouth wash post dive but no one has gotten sick yet to my knowledge.
I feel safer doing air share drills in the water than when demonstrating on the dock or pool side. But it is with only one or two others who I know very well. No worries.
Great thread and awesome quote that I am sure will be seen many times in the near future!
CamG Keep diving....keep training....keep learning!
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The likelihood of transmitting hepatitis (which is essentially not carried in saliva) or AIDS (which is not carried in saliva) by sharing a regulator is lower than your likelihood of getting killed in an auto accident on the way to the dive site. The likelihood of picking up a respiratory virus (which IS carried in mucus) is somewhat higher, although again, as the reg is passed from one person to another, it's being rinsed to some extent. I would not be happy sharing a regulator with someone with cold sores, though. That's a fairly easily transmitted virus which is present in significant quantities in tissue that is in contact with the regulator, and the biggest problem is that it's a persistent virus that you may never completely clear.
If I had a cold sore (which I luckily have never had) I would politely decline to participate in training activities that involve sharing a reg until the lesions were healed.
If I had a cold sore (which I luckily have never had) I would politely decline to participate in training activities that involve sharing a reg until the lesions were healed.
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