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Subject: Re: drysuit underwear
From: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:58:57 BST

  Phil Pfeiffer <phil@es*.ed*> wrote asking how to wash drysuit underwear.

  There seem to be these considerations which I may as well list out:-
  (1) Not shrinking it.
  (2) Not spoiling its insulating qualities.
  (3) Not weakening it.
  (4) Not harbouring or transmitting skin or other infections.
  (5) After a few dives, not smelling like an asteroid miner who has just
taken his spacesuit off for the first time in 3 months.

  I believe that one of the main offenders under (5) is a bacterium called
`Clostridium butyricum' (stale feet or rancid butter smell, as it makes
butyric acid).

  Which drysuit undergarments have pockets to keep papers etc in?

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