I need the help of ScubaBoard to develop a new safety device

[mmmbelows]

For underwater communications, me and my wife use the quacking device which is installed between the BC inflating hose and the BC. Pretty simple and quacks loudly both underwater and above. The price was about $40, as I recall.

Really love all the underwater noises from divers... shakers, rattlers, quackers, tank bangers.. on some dives it's a regular underwater garage band going on...

 

[JohnN]

Yep, a noisemaker is a more traditional solution for getting a buddy's attention, though some people find the noise obnoxious, especially if over-used.

If a diver is truly so inattentive that he doesn't hear a traditional noisemaker signal, is this proposed device's vibration or flashing light or whatever going to get his attention? I suggest an electric shock.

I (fortunately) can't hear my Suunto when it beeps at me. A 7mm hood is a pretty effective sound insulator

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Yep, a noisemaker is a more traditional solution for getting a buddy's attention, though some people find the noise obnoxious, especially if over-used.

If a diver is truly so inattentive that he doesn't hear a traditional noisemaker signal, is this proposed device's vibration or flashing light or whatever going to get his attention? I suggest an electric shock.

The problem with noisemakers is that people tend to overuse them ... and subsequently their dive buddies tend to tune them out ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[tarponchik]

The problem with noisemakers is that people tend to overuse them ... and subsequently their dive buddies tend to tune them out ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

People always overuse whatever new toy they got.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

The problem with noisemakers is that people tend to overuse them ... and subsequently their dive buddies tend to tune them out ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Or take them from the buddy and throw them away, break them, or beat them with it.

As far as a safety standard? Screw that. Something like that just encourages poor buddy skills, poor navigation skills, and if any agency mandated I'd stay as far away from that agency and their divers as I could.

 

[KeithG]

Maybe you would get more helpful feedback if you more clearly stated the problem you are trying to solve.

You have provided a set of fancy gizmo features that appear to solve the same problem as 8 feet of bungy cord.

Are you developing a dive computer as well? If not this is a non starter since there is no "universal" way to interface any kind of external sensor to every dive computer. A sensor by itself is useless.

The "digital ping" idea appears to be impractical from a packaging point of view. How would you activate it? If standalone then the sensor needs a button. The button needs to be waterproof. Waterproof is difficult, bulky and expensive. You could encapsulate it in a waterproof baggy and then squeeze the bag to activate (my uwatec aladin uses this concept to momentarily turn on the screen backlight.

There seems to be a large number of practical issues that have been ignored.

 

[KeithG]

you may also be able to learn a little by becoming familiar with the history of other similar products like the Uwatec Neverlost Gearing Up

 

[Lorenzoid]

The problem with noisemakers is that people tend to overuse them ... and subsequently their dive buddies tend to tune them out ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Hence the electric shock idea.

 

[Tracy]

I think the proximity alarm would be nice to attach to things, like cameras. There are a lot of GoPros lost due to being dropped, or mount failures. I lost a GoPro because the mount broke and it was out of my vision/not what I was focusing on. It would have been nice to have an alert.

So, like a string? but a fancy electronic expensive string that won't stop it from falling, just tell you that it fell?
Sounds reasonable.

 

[KeithG]

Hence the electric shock idea.

i have a hard time convincing my divebuddy to wear the cattle prod. Cattle prod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia