Bringing drinking water with you

[RumBum]

I been thinking of trying out diving with a baby bottle, the type with the baggie to hold your drink. I understand that I will have to find a container that will compress as liquid leaves it. I am already comfortable with taking my reg out for a drink of lake water, but you tend to pick up parasites and such that way. What are your suggestions of how to bring drinking water down with you?
I will try this in shallow water of course first to get the hang of it.

 

[The Kraken]

There are baby bottles made that are designed exactly like that for which you search. They have collapsible pouches to hold the fluid and the "bottles" themselves are nothing more than plastic holding devices to which the nipple attaches with slots in the sides to allow the container to collapse as the fluid is consumed.

the K

 

[Tom Winters]

Well this is your lucky day. Instead of jury rigging the baby bottle thing and possibly providing endless amusement for anyone who sees you gearing up, there are two commercially available solutions for your solutions.
The first has been around for a long time now - yes, the infamous SCUDA:
http://scuda.com/
And when you go tech with doubles, Tobin over at Deep Sea Supply has developed a prototype hydration device that sits between the tanks. See the attached picture since it's not on the DSS web site yet.
Finally, from any bike or camping store with a decent selection, you can get hydration packs in all shapes and sizes.

 

[Diver0001]

I just go for the low tech approach (see this post)

That tread has a number of other good ideas too.

R..

 

[The Dive Bum]

I have friends that use the SCUDA and they think it is the greatest thing. He actually put a liitle longer hose on it but he loves it.

 

[BabyDuck]

i know some folks who use capri suns...

 

[RumBum]

Some questions about the options:
1. A camelbak - where do you carry it? They are made to go on your back and I plan to have a tank strapped there.
2. Capri sun - Do you only get one go at it? How doesn't it get all over your BC when you try to stick an open half-drank juice pack in a pocket?

SCUDA sounds great, but $50 for a drink pack? Yikes.

I am still leaning towards using a baby bottle as the simplest solution.

 

[love2godeep]

The SCUDA sounds interesting. I like the idea of not having to take out the reg in order to get a drink of water. But does it really work? Their website says you just push on it to get some water. So, does the increased pressure at depth mean that water might start coming out by itself? I have a feeling there's a clever scientific answer for that, but I have much to learn. . . .

It would be interesting to hear from people who have actually used it.

 

[BabyDuck]

2. Capri sun - Do you only get one go at it?

i would think that this would be the case, yes. but i would also think the baby bottle could get lake/ocean water going back in the nipple hole, so hmm. i like Diver0001's idea.

 

[Diver0001]

Why does the scuda sound great to you guys? To me it sound like a real drag (literally). The last thing you need is something that weighs 300 grams hanging off your mouthpiece.....or am I missing something?

R..