do you rinse your gear?

[do it easy]

i was just curious what everyone else does with their gear after diving in freshwater?

i don't rinse at all! i used to get the hose out and rinse it all down, but now i just hang it out to dry and that's that. i will rinse the wetsuit/booties or the feet of my drysuit off at the lake/quarry to get the mud/silt/stones out. i also try to get some clean water into the spring on my reg, since this seems to be where all the sand accumulates. that's about it, unless i dive in a sewer, then i'll break out a little gentle soap to get my gear smelling minty fresh again.

[CaptnDale]

i was just curious what everyone else does with their gear after diving in freshwater?

i don't rinse at all! i used to get the hose out and rinse it all down, but now i just hang it out to dry and that's that. i will rinse the wetsuit/booties or the feet of my drysuit off at the lake/quarry to get the mud/silt/stones out. i also try to get some clean water into the spring on my reg, since this seems to be where all the sand accumulates. that's about it, unless i dive in a sewer, then i'll break out a little gentle soap to get my gear smelling minty fresh again.

When you can drink the water you're diving in why would you rinse your gear? What would I rinse it in that would be cleaner? I just take my gear off and hang it up in the crew's quarters of my boat.

Now, on a sea water dive, that is another story....

[juls64]

When everything was new, including me, I rinsed everything religiously. Now I only rinse stuff that needs it. Usually if sand, salt or chlorine are involved.

Juls

[do it easy]

drink the water? maybe if my life depended on it, but there are too many other divers out there with p valves- with drysuit diving, it's better to lead than to follow!

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[MgicTwnger]

When you can drink the water you're diving in why would you rinse your gear? What would I rinse it in that would be cleaner? I just take my gear off and hang it up in the crew's quarters of my boat.

Now, on a sea water dive, that is another story....

Exactly. Fresh water is fresh water, but with salt water I rinse everything ASAP. I've lived most of my life around salt water and know how corrosive it is.

[Atlaua]

I always rince my wing and hit it with a shot of simple green. Wetsuits and booties also get the rinse.

The dysuit has never been rinsed.

[CaptnDale]

The dysuit has never been rinsed.

My wife makes me wash my Weezles out every once in a while.

[nauifins73]

I am still in the rinse mode - 95% of my dives have been in saltwater and the others have been in a pool with Rangers.

[Mverick]

Salt Water I rinse....

Fresh Water, Unless my p-valve explodes internally... I don't rinse....

[Captain Caveman]

so far all my dives been in fresh water with the gear that i have. i rince my wing off for dirt and bactera that may grow on it. other than that i dont wash it unless its realy smelly

[SLIM]

If my gear did have the time to dry out, it would only get rinsed when used in Pool ( nasty water, pools are bad for you to dive in) or Saltwater in theocean wich is only 1 week a year, (more divers die in OP then in Caves each year) so I do take a chance once in a while and play in that nasty salt water on reefs. Through out the summer and winter months gear only get rinsed of dirt and thermals are wsahed once in a while. If anyone wants to come and rinse my gear, come on over and rinse all my tanks also.

SLIM

[theskull]

*Need a fourth polling option: My gear just barely dries out in time to dive again the next week.

Diving is a great rinse. I only rinse after salt water dives. I sanitize and rinse after an occasional dive in a nasty pond, which at times includes Rolla.

theskull

[nitroxbabe]

I also only rinse after salt/chlorine/dirt are involved.

I don't think I'd drink the water either though, Dale.

I just recently washed my drysuit for the first time - it was getting a bit ripe... the thermals get washed fairly regularly...

You know it's time to wash the dive gear when your buddy unzips your drysuit for you and falls right over...

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[reefraff]

Like most folks, after a salt-water dive, it's mandatory rinse time. I'm an unrepentant wetsuit tinkler, that usually causes some additional rinsing for those few wet dives I make. In freshwater the determining factor is how cruddy the water was: quarry dives usually mean the regulators get a rinsing but everything else just dries off; if I've been diving out on the lake I leave everything alone. As others have noted, it seems like there is an inverse relationship between my popularity and how long it's been since I cleaned my drysuit innards and underwear.