tjschultz2011
New
Hi everyone,
I'm very new to diving and I'm in search of a low cost, low tech, shallow diving set up to use for fresh water panfish spearing. I've done a ton of research on hookah set ups and I consider myself pretty handy so I think I could build my own (with proper safety in mind) for around $300 bucks. However, before I attempt this, I have a question regarding an even less expensive set up that I've designed in my head. I don't have hardly any experience diving other than snorkeling with the occasional dive down to spear a fish but rest assured that I plan to take a diving course before I do anything just to obtain all safety info I would need. BUT, I wanted to run this idea past some people who would know more about it and if it would be possible. Since I'm only going to be diving in water less than 20', and more likely less than 10' feet deep (and I'm not that great at holding my breath), I was wondering if it would be possible to use a system that consists of two 20' lengths of hookah food safe hose both connected to a simple mouth piece. Just off of the mouth piece, on both hoses, would be a check valve (one pointing up and one pointing down). One tube would be full of fresh air from above and the other full of exhaust air at all times. The hoses would be bound to each other to reduce tangling and they would both run to a big floating intertube and attach to ridgid plastic "snorkels" on the top of the intertube (the same type of intertube used by some hookah companies). On my end, they would run to a hookah type harness on my back and then to the mouth piece that I wear. The check valves would prevent me from breathing in CO2 and would keep a steady supply of fresh oxygen right there for me to breath.
Does this logic seem flawed in any way? Like I said, I don't know much about diving and pressure differences yet but I will take a diving course in the near future. Would some sort of pressure difference prevent me from being able to breath in fresh air? Or might this idea work as a really low cost solution to shallow diving? Thanks in advance for your help
-TJ
I'm very new to diving and I'm in search of a low cost, low tech, shallow diving set up to use for fresh water panfish spearing. I've done a ton of research on hookah set ups and I consider myself pretty handy so I think I could build my own (with proper safety in mind) for around $300 bucks. However, before I attempt this, I have a question regarding an even less expensive set up that I've designed in my head. I don't have hardly any experience diving other than snorkeling with the occasional dive down to spear a fish but rest assured that I plan to take a diving course before I do anything just to obtain all safety info I would need. BUT, I wanted to run this idea past some people who would know more about it and if it would be possible. Since I'm only going to be diving in water less than 20', and more likely less than 10' feet deep (and I'm not that great at holding my breath), I was wondering if it would be possible to use a system that consists of two 20' lengths of hookah food safe hose both connected to a simple mouth piece. Just off of the mouth piece, on both hoses, would be a check valve (one pointing up and one pointing down). One tube would be full of fresh air from above and the other full of exhaust air at all times. The hoses would be bound to each other to reduce tangling and they would both run to a big floating intertube and attach to ridgid plastic "snorkels" on the top of the intertube (the same type of intertube used by some hookah companies). On my end, they would run to a hookah type harness on my back and then to the mouth piece that I wear. The check valves would prevent me from breathing in CO2 and would keep a steady supply of fresh oxygen right there for me to breath.
Does this logic seem flawed in any way? Like I said, I don't know much about diving and pressure differences yet but I will take a diving course in the near future. Would some sort of pressure difference prevent me from being able to breath in fresh air? Or might this idea work as a really low cost solution to shallow diving? Thanks in advance for your help
-TJ