Music While Diving

[Dsix36]

There used to be a company making underwater housing for a iriver mp3 player. It was called H2O audio and there were two version available. The 200' rated one would hold an iFP-300 series player and the 300' rated one would hold an iFP-700 series player. They can occasionally be found in the used market but not often and they usually go for more than the new price ($199) was back then. The biggest problem with them was that the cord for the headphone would fail and either leak or have a wire inside broken and render them useless.

The same company made an idive-300 that would house an ipod so you could watch movies at 300' of depth too.

I have both and use them on my long decos all the time. I could not imagine doing many hours of deco without music or movies.

Good luck finding one. They are as rare as rocking horse poo.

 

[divad]

I didn't spend all that money on a rebreather so that I could hear "Ted Nugent" more clearly underwater. What's the point ? Enjoy your dive, and "listen for boats passing overhead".

Does anyone actually listen to Ted Nugent anywhere, at any time, on purpose?

 

[Doby45]

For deco music would be awesome. Not so much for listening during the dive.

 

[muzikbiz22]

Does anyone actually listen to Ted Nugent anywhere, at any time, on purpose?

There's been known to be a few hehe

 

[Laurie S.]

Not for me, thank you.

 

[kelemvor]

One of my buddies has some waterproof earbuds setup he uses for deco stops. I think he called it an aqua pod. Magnetic chessboards work pretty good for killing time as well.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

We did a dive where someone on a yacht had their music blaring so bad we could hear it all during the dive. drove me NUTS! (altho some say I haven't far to go on a "normal" day). Ruined the dive for me. I can understand someone doing long decos maybe wanting the distraction but I sure wouldn't want to be anywhere near them while they listened to it. Noise pollution is something I have to put up with living in the suburbs of a huge city. I want to escape the above water world not drag it down there with me.

 

[Skulmoski]

Amphicom SA made a FM Radio snorkel a few years ago.

Best Inventions of 2003 - TIME

You could listen to an "Octopus' Garden" on the Oldies but Goodies station!

GJS

 

[Steve_C]

Given the number of times I have seen somebody almost killed because they were into the music and it made them less situationally aware of things like a coming car, and I want to be into the nature, I say no. Diving can lure you into complacency as it is. I don't want music in the water. I also do not want it on the boat since the speaker system is usually not very good.

Having said that, back when I snow skied I often played a song in my head and I thought of skiing as doing a dance with the mountain where the varying mountain terrain led and I followed.

Was doing my first dive in a fiord north of vancouver. There was a heavy algae bloom overhead. So it was like a night dive. DM I was with had a video camera and we were using his lights. We were going down a shallow narrow canyon lined with large upright anemones. All I could hear in my head was the music from the scene in the movie Aliens when they entered the ship with the pods.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

One of my favorite dive operators will not allow music or anything but a Marine Required radio on the dive boat. He says when divers are in the water he wants the boat crew with no distractions, alert and watching for divers in trouble. I feel a heap safer diving from his boat because of it. I was impressed on a dive I sat out, he knew where all his divers were and even knew which divers in some cases. He knew from the bubbles about current and had a mermaid line ready to throw when he saw a couple divers were ascending and were going to get caught in cross currents!