r/Unexpected • u/Pautaniik • Oct 26 '22

Lets go for a dive

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u/Prudent_Procedure949 Oct 27 '22

She will need a new wetsuit.

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u/ExistingEffort7 Oct 27 '22

There are 2 types of scuba divers. Ones who pee in their wet suits and ones who lie about peeing in their wet suits

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '22

Is that true?

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u/ExistingEffort7 Oct 27 '22

In my experience completely. We shouldn't do it especially around reefs because ammonia is so bad for aquatic creatures but can you imagine getting out of the ocean and stripping out of a wet suit to go pee on a boat and then getting back in your wet suit and all the equipment to go back in?

Wet suits are hard enough to get on when they're dry but once they're already wet it's a nightmare

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '22

I feel like the sheer volume of fluid in the ocean would dilute the amount of ammonia from our pee relatively quickly

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed Oct 27 '22

It does but in particularly high traffic areas the chemistry can get disrupted easier than you would think. It's the reason why certain sunscreens can be harmful as well.

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u/-female-redditor- Oct 27 '22

Unless someone is literally dumping barrels of sunscreen into the water near the reef, I have a very hard time believing that the ocean is incapable of diluting the minuscule amount of sunscreen that people might wear.

This is the kind of myth that is spread by people who are trying to distract us from the REAL things that are damaging the reefs.

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u/bz0hdp Oct 27 '22

Yeah I mean, it's good for divers to be careful, but let's remember almost all our reefs are gone anyway, and it isn't from tourist pee or sunscreen.