Help Me Decide Which Is The Best Dive Restroom

Any good dive club must have a suitable divey restroom. And when I say “suitable,” for a dive club, that means filthy and disgusting. On my recent trip to Columbus, Georgia, I found some good examples of dive restrooms at the Gold Club and the Carousel Lounge. Since restrooms seem to be a source of endless fascination for the membership here, I wanted to share my discoveries. In fact, I want to solicit the help of my fellow TUSCLers in deciding which one is the best example of a dive restroom.

Gold Club: tuscl.net

What really struck me about this one is the jury-rigged repair to the toilet. The porcelain tank top must have been broken some time ago. Instead of purchasing a new top, or heaven forbid, a new toilet, someone fashioned a new top out of a piece of wood. Some care obviously went into making this top as a router was used to bevel the edges. The top is showing it’s age by the numerous cigarette burn marks on the wood. Nice additional touches are the 5-gallon bucket to catch water dripping from the sink, and the bone-dry bar of soap on the sink.

Carousel Lounge: tuscl.net

Nothing particularly unusual about this dive restroom, although the vanity door hanging from one hinge and the empty paper towel holder are nice touches. What potentially puts it ahead of the Gold Club on the dive scale is the strong stench of stale urine that hits you in face like a physical object as soon as you open the door.

Which one do you think is the better dive restroom, Gold Club or Carousel Lounge?

Or share your story of your best all time dive restroom. My all time favorite was at a club in Korea, late 80s, near the DMZ. It was a small room about the size of a closet with a concrete floor. The urinal was a small channel formed in the concrete floor that ran to a hole in the wall. I’m pretty sure the urine just dumped outside into the street.