rjack321's New DPV

[happy-diver]

ScubaPro used to be cool

 

[sea_ledford]

Yeah, it’s pretty slick. Watching the transition from flight to dive and from dive to flight is impressive.

Flight time of 45min while swim time is 120 minutes - less resistance, BION.

Claimed to be able to take off (go airborne) from the face of a wave.

My buddy’s company that does a wide variety of maritime work all over the world was pretty interested in the cost savings of being able to fly and dive a UAS several kilometers off shore to inspect a subsurface requirement without having to put a commercial diver in the water.

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Yeah, that would be a game changer for a lot of "look and see" type work. And SAR, fly the drone until you find the person lost at sea, land next to them. Now you have buoyancy and a location!

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Yeah, it’s pretty slick. Watching the transition from flight to dive and from dive to flight is impressive.

Flight time of 45min while swim time is 120 minutes - less resistance, BION.

Claimed to be able to take off (go airborne) from the face of a wave.

My buddy’s company that does a wide variety of maritime work all over the world was pretty interested in the cost savings of being able to fly and dive a UAS several kilometers off shore to inspect a subsurface requirement without having to put a commercial diver in the water.

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I'm not into scooters/DPVs, but this combined aerial/underwater drone looks crazy cool!

 

[Johnoly]

Yeah, it’s pretty slick.

In the boating world where money is no object.......That's the latest hi-tech Fish Finder.
Thanks for all the cool pictures. At first I thought you were at a dive convention,,,but then I saw everyone was wearing pants, lol !!

 

[Manatee Diver]

At first I thought you were at a dive convention,,,but then I saw everyone was wearing pants, lol !!

SOFIC, so everything is priced based on Uncle Sugar paying for it. Those DPVs are probably $50k each.

 

[USdiver1]

Meanwhile in 1961....

 

[sea_ledford]

SOFIC, so everything is priced based on Uncle Sugar paying for it. Those DPVs are probably $50k each.

More than that! The JetBoots I got to play with when they were being developed, were supposed to be $10-15K. Once they went full military vs civilian market, they cost $45k/set. And those were two little scooters attached to your legs. And that is 10 year old pricing.