glbirch
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Mr Mares:
Oxygenated fluorocarbons?
Here's one study...
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0984/5_118/67708350/p1/article.jhtml
and another that's a little easier to read
http://www.scienceweb.org/movies/abyss.html
So whats the future???????????????
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Oxygenated fluorocarbons?
Here's one study...
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0984/5_118/67708350/p1/article.jhtml
and another that's a little easier to read
http://www.scienceweb.org/movies/abyss.html
Mr Mares:Its good to see everybody having a go at something new -Titaniunm,HUBs,Airlock,Redundant Air Source (I dare not mention the word PONY, Opps, Sorry Uncle Pug )-Higher Working tank pressure, Etc Etc.
But what will we be discussing in 20 years time. One thing is for sure, Scuba is becoming a much more mainstream hobby, this means more people, which means big bucks for the manufactures. :frown2: This means more investment in technology.
For my 2 pence worth, In 20 years Rebreathers will be the mainstay of recreational diving, complete computer intergration, disposable CO2 scrubbers you pick up at your LDS, Heads up displays built into fullface masks all with intergrated coms, you'll probably be able to text from underwater :dropmouth
This is not desgined to wind people up!!!
I would love to here the views of the older AND MUCH WISER members of this bored as well as the younger members, things have changed over the past 20 years and they will over the next, but how????
The two major changes I've seen in the last 20 years are the advent of the computer and a large rise in popularity of--or at least interest in--light tek diving for lack of a better term (think nitrox and advanced nitrox). I think this trend in popularity will continue but the methods won't change much. I do see computers getting a lot more sophisticated but I don't see rebreathers becoming the norm unless they become much cheaper and a lot more fool proof first.
Surprisingly, the rest of the gear has hardly changed at all in the last 20 years. Regulators breathe easier. That's about it. The rest comes across to me as fads and gadgets.
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Don Burke
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I expect rebreathers to get better to the point where semi-closed rebreathers are common for all rec diving and the norm in warm water. With helium prices rising, closed circuit rebreathers will continue to spread in tech diving.
Scrubbers will probably hold cartridges that come in cans similar to tennis ball cans. The scrubber I would design would take three or four cartridges so a diver could pull the most used up cartridge from the input end and add a fresh one at the output end. There would be some sort of indicator on the cartridge to tell how depleted it was.
There will still be a lot of open circuit diving. Many of us do a lot of diving where gas capacity isn't the limiting factor anyway.
Voice communications will be widely available. Many dive operations will require divers to have voice comms or a recall system and it will be the norm for dive boats to have a shipset to communicate with both. Diver locating transponders will probably be required by some and will probably be integrated in the recall diverset, possibly in the same box as a dive computer/ bottom timer.
Scrubbers will probably hold cartridges that come in cans similar to tennis ball cans. The scrubber I would design would take three or four cartridges so a diver could pull the most used up cartridge from the input end and add a fresh one at the output end. There would be some sort of indicator on the cartridge to tell how depleted it was.
There will still be a lot of open circuit diving. Many of us do a lot of diving where gas capacity isn't the limiting factor anyway.
Voice communications will be widely available. Many dive operations will require divers to have voice comms or a recall system and it will be the norm for dive boats to have a shipset to communicate with both. Diver locating transponders will probably be required by some and will probably be integrated in the recall diverset, possibly in the same box as a dive computer/ bottom timer.
I think the CCR is likely to become the norm for anyone diving where 'mix is indicated - simply due to gas cost issues.
Helium is going to get VERY expensive in the next 10 to 20 years. VERY expensive. Like several times what it costs now. The escalation has already begun, and it will only get worse. Prices have been artificially held low due to releases from the US Strategic reserve - the problem with this, of course, is that it will run out.
Proliferation of CCRs may drop their cost towards that of a good OC setup. I can't conceive of why it shouldn't be - they really aren't any more complicated than an OC system + dive computer. The only thing that keeps them expensvie now is relatively low volume.
At a $2,000 price-point, I'd buy a CCR right now. They can easily be made at a profit for that kind of money, given sufficient volume.
Helium is going to get VERY expensive in the next 10 to 20 years. VERY expensive. Like several times what it costs now. The escalation has already begun, and it will only get worse. Prices have been artificially held low due to releases from the US Strategic reserve - the problem with this, of course, is that it will run out.
Proliferation of CCRs may drop their cost towards that of a good OC setup. I can't conceive of why it shouldn't be - they really aren't any more complicated than an OC system + dive computer. The only thing that keeps them expensvie now is relatively low volume.
At a $2,000 price-point, I'd buy a CCR right now. They can easily be made at a profit for that kind of money, given sufficient volume.
One word...
TANG!!!
glbirch
Contributor
NetDoc:One word...
LOL, that gets my vote...
OP
Paul Evans
"Mr Mares"
Alright you've got me, TANG????????????????????
OP
Paul Evans
"Mr Mares"
If Tang refers to Titanuim, your so wrong, the Skunk Works first developed the casting of Ti for the SR 71 Project.
You know... the orange drink that the astronauts drank in space! A couple of spoonfuls in your glass of water and you were flying high on a suger buzz! Hey, the good folks at Tang told us it was the most important development in the space program, and we know they wouldn't lie. 
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