Nitrox/Snorkel question

[mike_s]

This thread is too much fun.....

(Yeah, I know I'm bumping a year old thread, but I thought it was worth others reading!)

 

[JonKranhouse]

LOL - great thread - but it needs context:

(actually, this "life-preserver" was patented 6-years after Titanic sunk)
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OK - let's get happy - rumor has it this device, introduced in 1954, mixed nitrox with nitrous oxide. Well it should have.
(Don't hold your breath for the HydroOptix version!)

 

[Shaka Doug]

That's some wacky stuff Jon!

 

[eponym]

I missed this thread the first time around because I was working on my awesome snork patent:

The Original Oh-Too-Clean Diver,
Bryan

 

[JonKranhouse]

WOW - widows and orphans will panic when someone emerges from the surf wearing that thing! Never mind all its dead-air space, causing real panic attacks from CO2 retention.

 

[divermatt]

Um...Guys? Can we promise to never give historical context, technical diagrams or praise to my threads? We are threatening to shade my comments as more that completely inane. I have a reputation to protect.

 

[eponym]

Hey, at least no one's said "I'm an engineer."

But back to the OP, it reminded me of a post by Jerry Nuss in 2004.

I went into a shop and they had their nitrox cleaning prices displayed and they had regulators $35, drysuits $30, BC $30. So I asked the owner of the dive shop about it and he told me all these things had to be cleaned and I needed a dedicated regulator. Well the fun ensued for me and I asked him about what happens when I get grass and leaves into my drysuit when I step into it and he said I would need to get it recleaned. He never changed his position and I was quizzing him but he never got what I was saying.​

Maybe they do snorks too, Matt.

-Bryan