elmer fudd
Contributor
Back before the advent of scuba, homemade shallow water helmets used to be fairly common.
From what I've read, they weren't generally any more complicated than an upended bucket with a viewing window, a nozzle on the top and attachments for weights or a harness to keep it from floating off your head.
Basically you had this upended bucket on over your head with a hose feeding down into the nozzle on the top and on the surface you had a compressor or a pump or a tank feeding it air. The extra air would simply spill out the bottom.
The Fischer Price looking thing in this video is an Aquabell. They sometimes come up for sale on E-bay. The last one I saw was there for about a month with a "buy it now" price of $35.
‪Dutch Diving Helmets at diving club Fantasea 2010.mp4‬‏ - YouTube
More professional or collectible shallow water helmets can be quite expensive.
From what I've read, they weren't generally any more complicated than an upended bucket with a viewing window, a nozzle on the top and attachments for weights or a harness to keep it from floating off your head.
Basically you had this upended bucket on over your head with a hose feeding down into the nozzle on the top and on the surface you had a compressor or a pump or a tank feeding it air. The extra air would simply spill out the bottom.
The Fischer Price looking thing in this video is an Aquabell. They sometimes come up for sale on E-bay. The last one I saw was there for about a month with a "buy it now" price of $35.
‪Dutch Diving Helmets at diving club Fantasea 2010.mp4‬‏ - YouTube
More professional or collectible shallow water helmets can be quite expensive.