Duckweed removal after dive

[Puttzer]

Easier than getting it off, is not getting any on you as you exit. Just use some of your leftover gas to clear a hole, and exit through it. The stuff seems pretty easy to spread. It now covers Cow, and 50% covers Convict. It would not supprise me if P1 is covered soon.

How hard would it be to kill in P1, without doing harm to the normal ecosystem?

[SlowDiver]

And what is so bad about it?

It's the only plant that tried to kill me four years ago. For rebreather dives be sure none of the small seed-like part of the plant gets into your mouthpiece where the one way (mushroom) valves are. Took a CO2 hit and had the good fortune to recognized that something was not right. Aborted in time to just have a bad headack the next day.

Fred

[CaveMD]

Easier than getting it off, is not getting any on you as you exit. Just use some of your leftover gas to clear a hole, and exit through it. The stuff seems pretty easy to spread. It now covers Cow, and 50% covers Convict. It would not supprise me if P1 is covered soon.

Try that at P3...it will clear a hole about the size of a silver dollar. There is something else growing under the duckweed that acts as a stabilizer(I think it was hydrilla but I can't remember). Coming out of p3 means you will look like swamp things unkempt hairy extra swampy brother.

[Sludge]

I've never had a problem doing exactly what Jason said. I very seldom have ANY duckweed on me when I get out. And I'm the one FW was talking about having a garden sprayer to rinse everything off!

[JahJahwarrior]

I got out of p3 today fairly clean, but I used my fins to move the duckweed away then dunked myself before exiting.

Not sure if the team of 5 that exited just before us, who went straight to p1, did the same...

But, I want to say I've seen duckweed in p1 recently, and now it seems nice and clear.

I've always hated the sand from Alexander, which takes days to remove from your hair, more than duckweed, but I do my best to avoid spreading it.

[FW]

It's the only plant that tried to kill me four years ago. For rebreather dives be sure none of the small seed-like part of the plant gets into your mouthpiece where the one way (mushroom) valves are. Took a CO2 hit and had the good fortune to recognized that something was not right. Aborted in time to just have a bad headack the next day.

Fred

It can cause the exhaust valve to leak in some open circuit second stages too.

[LakeCityDiver]

I think I have serviced some of your regs. It takes a week in an ultrasonic cleaner, with 100% acid to get the salt crud off

Nah not my regs. Thats the only thing that ALWAYS gets rinsed. Plus I have only done about 6 ocean dives to my 100+ spring dives in the last year. As for the rest of my gear that spring water is cleaner then any tap water I use.

[Kelly Jessop]

spring water is cleaner then any tap water I use.

Wow,where do you live. Spring water at many places has reached some critical safety points with nitrates etc,even one spring was testing levels of Deet. I remember north Suwannee county had put residents under a warning a few years ago that elderly and children weren't to drink their well water. I look at the quarterly report that I get from the city of my water quality,and compare it to some of the water quality reports for spring water,and wish that I could dive in the city water tank sometimes We used to chuckle about the comment that we would hear at workshops 15 years ago,"there will always be caves,just won't be able to dive them" in reference to declining water quality,but the this is coming to fruition.

[Line Squirrel]

Wow,where do you live. Spring water at many places has reached some critical safety points with nitrates etc,even one spring was testing levels of Deet. I remember north Suwannee county had put residents under a warning a few years ago that elderly and children weren't to drink their well water. I look at the quarterly report that I get from the city of my water quality,and compare it to some of the water quality reports for spring water,and wish that I could dive in the city water tank sometimes We used to chuckle about the comment that we would hear at workshops 15 years ago,"there will always be caves,just won't be able to dive them" in reference to declining water quality,but the this is coming to fruition.

There was a time when we used to drink the water in Peacock, LR, etc., during a dive and while on deco. Not anymore

[a64pilot]

There was a time when we used to drink the water in Peacock, LR, etc., during a dive and while on deco. Not anymore

I guess I need to stop then, as I assumed it was about as pure "spring" water as you could get, just missing the bottle was all.

On dives of only an hour or two, do any of you carry some kind of Camel back or something?