Can UV rays go through water?

Question

I have a pool. I don't like laying out to tan. Will I get tan in the water?

Answer 1

Whew!!!

Do you have medical insurance?

Answer 2

UV is used by water agencies to disinfect water. So I would say yes. If anything you might get more of a burn due to the magnification of light from the water and wave action. Someone (not me) needs to invent a rotisserie gizmo to evenly distribute the burn action of UV to evenly tan and evenly spread the cancer damage done after the fact.

Answer 3

Yeah they do, sometimes they get magnified so you will get a better tan.

Answer 4

Yes, UV rays go through water, and through windows, and through cloud cover.

80% of the sun's damaging rays are still making it through cloud cover.

Yes, you would get tan swimming in the pool.  Indeed the water, and the sides of the pool will probably bounce the rays back and you will recieve even more damage, I mean tan than you would just being out in the sun.

I worked for a Dermatologist for over 8 years.  I know exactly how damaging the UVA & UVB rays from the sun can be.  I will NEVER forget the beautiful, funny, and simply charming nurse (R.N.) I met in our office one day.  She was 32 years old.  She had sold her home, and most of her belongings, and quit her job at the Seattle hospital.  She was going home to her parents..........to die.

She had melanoma, which had already metastasized to her brain.  The brain is melinoma's favorite spot to metastasize too.  Melenoma does not respond to cancer treatments.  Indeed it can sometimes make it grow fast, more agressive.

Melanoma surgeries have progressed dramatically over the years.  It use to be that if a melanoma was found the doctors simply aputated that limb (sucks if it was on your face).  Now the surgeons do a surgery involving "frozen sections."  

Where-ever the melanoma is, the surgeons mark out a section six inches away from the cancer, and take all that flesh out (about an inch deep as well).  Then that tissue if frozen, and people in the lab start to examine the tissue under microscopes immediatly, and look at all the cells along the edges of the first surgery.  If any other abnormal cells are found, the surgeons take out another six inches of flesh (and go deeper) from the original surgery.  They keep doing that until the cells are normal on the outer edges, or untilt the surgery itself would kill the patient.  They still end up having to amputate limbs at times.

The most common place for a woman to develop a melanoma is on her legs.

I'm quiet sure you didn't like my answer, but as I said I will remember that nurse for the rest of my life.  When I met her I was in my early 20's.  I'm now in my early 40's.  To honnor that nurses life, and memory, I try to tell as many young ladies the reality of tanning as possible.  

When your skin tans it is the skins reaction to the suns DAMAGING rays.  Your skin is trying to save you.

Please wear a high quality, waterproof sunscreen.  

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Worked in the medical profession over 15 years