Spare air or sumthing like it

[Scuba fryd]

Hi so I know the typical don't dive spare air mindset and so on but I have som kids in my family that want one to go play in a pool and am just thinking that a spare air ist much at all if you had to get sumthing what would you use mby som surface compressor with a long hose or ?

 

[rhwestfall]

 

[OTF]

What you should get the kids is... dive certifications to whatever level is age-appropriate. If not that, teach them to snorkel which is great prep for scuba later on.

Its very easy for an untrained kid to over expand a lung and die messing around with even a tiny scuba tank, even in a pool. It happens. Don't buy those scorkel/dideep/whatever mini tanks marketed to kids without training. Death traps hawked by sketchy chinese companies.

Or if you need to get them a fancy pool toy get them one of those little dive scooters that they can play with snorkeling. Tons of fun.

Edit: I realized that my mistakenly incomplete sentence previously ended with "sketchy chinese" instead of "sketchy chinese companies", the former sounding much more racist than intended. No issue with the people of china - only their government, state-sanctioned business practices, genocide, and sale of harmful products.

 

[Scuba fryd]

What you should get the kids is... dive certifications to whatever level is age-appropriate. If not that, teach them to snorkel which is great prep for scuba later on.

Its very easy for an untrained kid to over expand a lung and die messing around with even a tiny scuba tank, even in a pool. It happens. Don't buy those scorkel/dideep/whatever mini tanks marketed to kids without training. Death traps hawked by sketchy chinese

Or if you need to get them a fancy pool toy get them one of those little dive scooters that they can play with snorkeling. Tons of fun.

Yeah that's what I was thinking I was mby just hoping for some good alternative so we could finde out if it was fun for them it's not my kids and there dad didn't want to buy the cert if it would never be used. But I'll tell him that

 

[tursiops]

Yeah that's what I was thinking I was mby just hoping for some good alternative so we could finde out if it was fun for them it's not my kids and there dad didn't want to buy the cert if it would never be used. But I'll tell him that

You are paying for training, not buying a cert.

 

[Edward3c]

You are paying for training, not buying a cert.

What, I paid my money why don't I get the certificate?

 

[tursiops]

What, I paid my money why don't I get the certificate?

Because you paid for training...and you did not do well enough to pass.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Yeah that's what I was thinking I was mby just hoping for some good alternative so we could finde out if it was fun for them it's not my kids and there dad didn't want to buy the cert if it would never be used. But I'll tell him that

Do a try scuba experience with the kids. This can be done quite safely in a pool. You are correct that certs are typically participation trophies.

 

[tursiops]

You are correct that certs are typically participation trophies.

Not in my experience. I'm sorry your experience seems otherwise.

 

[lowwall]

Do a try scuba experience with the kids. This can be done quite safely in a pool. You are correct that certs are typically participation trophies.

Not in my experience. I'm sorry your experience seems otherwise.

Obviously @wetb4igetinthewater is so naturally talented any course is a mere formality.