Javik
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This is actually unrelated to diving. And despite the image I'm including, this is a serious thread.
I would eventually like to try building a person-sized immersion tank where the user is continuously underwater for upwards of 12-16 hours a day, but can watch TV and use a monitor/keyboard/mouse inside.
It would only be deep enough to hold an adult upright, and with rungs and quick-slap emergency paddles on all four walls to rapidly empty the tank if needed.
Don't know if you can sleep in a float tank. That would be interesting to try.
For maximum comfort, would want either a two-hose rebreather-style mask or a full helmet so the user can talk, and no bubbles from the exhaust air.
Air supply would be permanent, freeflow, and just enough to comfortably counterbalance the immersion, about 18 water inches / 0.65 PSI / 0.0447 bar.
Probably the most comfort involves the least amount of constant tight skin pressure, so a full helmet with neck dam is probably going to be the way to go. Probably one of the Kirby SuperLite fiberglass helmets.
Can anyone with experience with full face masks and helmets offer any recommendations on this? This equipment is quite expensive, $5000 and up, and I don't want to be buying multiple different ones to find the best one for long-term daily use.
(I will have to work on the "feeding/waste tubes" later, once I get the helmet and tank worked out.)
I have no idea where to put this thread on here. Technical section? Commercial? Equipment info? Research and development? Maybe a moderator could suggest something better? But this does seem like the best place on the Internet for ask for mask/helmet advice.
I would eventually like to try building a person-sized immersion tank where the user is continuously underwater for upwards of 12-16 hours a day, but can watch TV and use a monitor/keyboard/mouse inside.
It would only be deep enough to hold an adult upright, and with rungs and quick-slap emergency paddles on all four walls to rapidly empty the tank if needed.
Don't know if you can sleep in a float tank. That would be interesting to try.
For maximum comfort, would want either a two-hose rebreather-style mask or a full helmet so the user can talk, and no bubbles from the exhaust air.
Air supply would be permanent, freeflow, and just enough to comfortably counterbalance the immersion, about 18 water inches / 0.65 PSI / 0.0447 bar.
Probably the most comfort involves the least amount of constant tight skin pressure, so a full helmet with neck dam is probably going to be the way to go. Probably one of the Kirby SuperLite fiberglass helmets.
Can anyone with experience with full face masks and helmets offer any recommendations on this? This equipment is quite expensive, $5000 and up, and I don't want to be buying multiple different ones to find the best one for long-term daily use.
(I will have to work on the "feeding/waste tubes" later, once I get the helmet and tank worked out.)
I have no idea where to put this thread on here. Technical section? Commercial? Equipment info? Research and development? Maybe a moderator could suggest something better? But this does seem like the best place on the Internet for ask for mask/helmet advice.