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I have friends who say that if you don't need to pee during a dive then you're not sufficiently hydrated. Especially with more demanding dives in cold water.
Nope, quite serious. I had to PEE.
Besides, they have this cool new chemical called Chlorine I've seen being dumped in all the pools these days.
Dang, that would be humiliating for sure.For heaven's sake - get out if you (think you may) need to pee. DO NOT pee in a swimming pool. There are many pools now which have disclosing chemicals added to them - if you pee you get a cloud of coloured water around you. In quite a few countries - I know this is true of Germany, Iceland and Austria - if you are found to have peed in a pool three things happen. First, you are publicly humiliated and evicted. Secondly, you are banned from any public swimming pool there for life. Thirdly, you are prosecuted and fined.
I used to live near the Cape Town suburb of Newlands, where they had a superb olympic-size pool. One day the public analyst closed the pool when she found it contained 1/3 urine. Sterile to be sure, but urine nonetheless. When the pool had been drained and thoroughly cleaned it was re-opened, and was the first South African pool to have the above disclosing chemical. The first (and only) person to be caught was a local resident and regular pool user. In addition to the fine and lifetime ban, she found the public humiliation so bad (her name, address and photo were on the front page of the Cape Times newspaper) that she left her job and moved away to the other side of the country - where she was still banned from ever going into a public swimming pool.
DO NOT PEE IN A SWIMMING POOL.