Underwater lights

[jfm]

That's so sad, the water & sea floor are completely devoid of life. Maybe you need more nutrients depositing?

Why do you need to live with poo? A few boats' sea toilets do not make any discernable difference in tidal waters. Even when you add a hundred seals, a million gannets & petrels, thousands of fish, a few otters, foxes & even dogs on the beach, the water is still pristine, despite your strange fears.

The sea life (if only you had some) has evolved over many millenia to deal with mammals excretia & it is a valuable, even essential part of the food chain.

Oh come on Searush. That isn't how it's meant to work around here.

Look, you said u/w lights polluted the water in the nice anchorage. Then I toucheed by catching you out for not having a holding tank. Now you're supposed to touchee back man, not behave like a sodding geogrpahy teacher Go on, give it another go...

 

[benjenbav]

Oh come on Searush. That isn't how it's meant to work around here.

Look, you said u/w lights polluted the water in the nice anchorage. Then I toucheed by catching you out for not having a holding tank. Now you're supposed to touchee back man, not behave like a sodding geogrpahy teacher Go on, give it another go...

Aha, mebbe you are playing with the black rather than the white pieces; in which case might I suggest you need to counter SR's "good excrement" opening gambit with a photosynthesis defence: beneficial effect of light of marine life etc?

 

[Simondjuk]

No, not pisssing. Crappping! You gonna defend that then?

You'll recall that you opened with p!ss before giving us excrement, so I just went with it.

Whatever the sterile or otherwise features of urine, most of us just don't want it wafting about near our gin. I was just pointing out that to complain about others polluting the anchorage with light while pisssing in it yourself is kinda rich. Anyway, as you mention sterile, the fact is that craap is full of bacteria and other things that are an essential part of the digestion process but are still very harmful to humans if sited anywhere other than the appendix onwards. Not only after the craap been standing in a tank or whatever, but as soon as it is dumped. In the anchorage.

Am I going to defend it? No, I'm not, and neither do I do it. When on little boats without holding tanks, I tend to only spend one night at anchor followed by a trip ashore the following day, and can therefore conduct my ablutions there. In fact, come to think about it, except when on passage, I very rarely take a dump on board any boat, preferring to use the shore facilities and reduce the frequency of pump outs.

I'm quite sure that a good many swimmers of a coarser persuasion would empty their bowels when chest depth distance from a crowded beach just as freely as a large majority of more civilised folk might take a leak. Given that there are vastly more swimmers than there are small, holding tankless yachts in the world, it might be reasonable to assume that people taking a dump whilst swimming leads to many more raw floaters bobbing about our oceans than are emitted from the bog outlet seacocks of small boats.

Consider further, if you will, the fact that the density of innocent, non-turd-deploying-swimmers is likely to be far higher off the average beach than in the average anchorage, and we begin to see not only what an inconsequential problem the occasional flushing of well mushed up little cloud of liquid poop from the sea toilets of those who do discharge them in anchorages actually is, but also that it's not nearly as antisocial an act as that carried out with much greater regularity by the heinous defecator who operates from the beach, yet we don't pay him, or her, any mind whatsoever. I suppose now that this foul and disgusting reality has been brought to mind though, that it's going to be like a scene from Jaws on beaches all over the world.... "Get out of the water! Get out of the water!" ....or not, of course.

So, I don't do it, and no, I don't defend it. In terms of antisocial acts, however, worse is likely happening on every busy beach in the world as we speak. In pollution terms, if it's even relevant, much, much more impact is likely to be caused by swimmers worldwide. In ecological terms, it's certainly vastly less damaging than, say, burning 75 or so gallons of fossil fuel every hour, hour after hour, for no particularly useful purpose.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Oh dear, all this sanctimony is getting really tedious. Can somebody please post some pics of some underwater lights? Pref on a high OB mobo??

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

This looks pretty nice:

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[SolentPhill]

Oh dear, all this sanctimony is getting really tedious. Can somebody please post some pics of some underwater lights? Pref on a high OB mobo??

Cheers
Jimmy

I was thinking that, has the OP got his answer??? cause there's a lot of cr@@p about now!!!

 

[benjenbav]

They attract fish:

 

[SolentPhill]

again not good quality as was taken on phone but it shows a couple of Lumshores in action few weeks ago

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Here's another:

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Simondjuk]

Hmmm, perhaps I should have added a few to the end of that post for those who need everything illuminating.
You see what I did there. No? Nevermind.

 

[SolentPhill]

Attracts swimmers as well

 

[SolentPhill]

better quality

 

[Simondjuk]

I must admit, Solent Phil, Brighton Marina does light up in a lovely shade of murk grey.

 

[Searush]

I no longer need to reply - your own pictures have had me ROFLMAO.


As mentioned earlier, would you like to add some more of chest wigs, medallions, tattoos & piercings? "Laughter is the best medecine" to quote the good old Readers' Digest.

And even funnier, you've all paid a fortune to make your boats less seaworthy & more Blingy!

BTW Jimmy, SR is actually 2 words on my boat, but nicely P-shopped anyway.

 

[jfm]

Consider further, if you will, ...

I dont think I will. It's become tedious and we are better off just agreeing to disagree

burning 75 or so gallons of fossil fuel every hour, hour after hour, for no particularly useful purpose.

Lots of people having fun is a great big useful purpose. No need to have a big debate on that because neither of us would be intrisically correct: I see your point of view but there is a contrary point of view too.

 

[Searush]

C'mon, JFM, weren't you just joshing me for not responding with a p-take? I'm sure you an do better than that, we're letting the customers down. Maybe it is time to look for another thread.

Why do people take themselves so seriously on t'interweb? It's not like it's real or anything is it?

OMG, maybe I am really virtual!

 

[jfm]

C'mon, JFM, weren't you just joshing me for not responding with a p-take? I'm sure you an do better than that,

Fair comment SR! But post #63 was a bit of an essay, and I'm rushed today. Feels like we've kinda done this one to death? Have to log off for a bit; best wishes. BTW,I don't think Jimmy photoshopped that did he? The boat is actually called searush i think. The cheek of it, I know!

 

[MapisM]

That's so sad, the water & sea floor are completely devoid of life. Maybe you need more nutrients depositing?

Naah, marine life around here doesn't seem to need human deposits to survive...!
And since
a) you obviously missed my "Aquarium" series the first time I posted it around here, and
b) the thread needs some enlightening by now (no pun intended!), here's a small proof of what I'm saying.

 

[Searush]

Lovely pics thank you, but are you sure that none of those divers have ever "centrally heated" their wet suits tho? And I don't see any of the fish wearing nappies.

Tell me, how do you cope with having a shower or a bath when the hills of the water catchment area are covered with sheep & cow poo & wee? Have you ever noticed that your eyes sting in the swimming pool? That is not the chemicals they put in the water, but it is due to the reaction of those chemicals with urine.

Did you also know that in extreme conditions many people have survived by drinking their own urine for the fluids needed to live? Obviously it isn't something for nothing & with "recycling" the urine gets darker & thicker and kidney damage will eventually ensue, but there are people who would not have survived without it.

Nope the more I think about it the lack of holding tanks is not an issue in open tidal waters & in harbours/marinas there are usually shore based facilities available. So I have no qualms about my facilities, and, as my avatar shows, it isn't a problem to swim in the water either.

 

[sigmasailor]

Here's another:

Cheers
Jimmy

I wonder what this owner needs to compensate for.....