Super Snorkel?

[DaveLair27]

I stumbled upon a device called the "Super Snorkel" and the advertisement says you can dive all day! Does anyone have any insight into what this product is and if it's worth looking into? :06:

Mucho Appreciado!

 

[teknitroxdiver]

It's just a surface supplied air system. Basically instead of a tank on your back, you have a reeeeeeealy long hose on a reg which is connected to a compressor on a float/in a boat.

As for diving all day.......well, just because you're exempt from the tank requirement doesn't mean you're exempt from the NDL requirement.

 

[DaveLair27]

Yeah, that was my thinking too, false advertising... I'm sueing.

 

[jonnythan]

Yeah, that was my thinking too, false advertising... I'm sueing.

Well if you never ascend you never have to worry about the NDL's....

I think it would kinda suck being tethered to the surface anyway. One of the greatest things about diving is the freedom...

 

[teknitroxdiver]

The SUPER SNORKEL is THE unlimited air supply for almost all your diving needs. With the SUPER SNORKEL SS-I models, there is sufficient air for two divers at the maximum "no decompression depth" of 30 feet. This model has been tested and found to supply light breathing air for two people at 30 feet or one diver at 60 feet. The unit will operate approximately three hours on its two quart gasoline tank. That's only about 37 cents per dive hour! For those who need greater depth capabilities, the SUPER SNORKEL DD1 models will supply light breathing air for two divers down to 60 feet or one diver to approximately 90 feet; with no significant change in size weight or stability. The SUPER SNORKEL DD2 model will supply a tremendous amount of air capable of two divers to 90 feet with minimal air or four divers to 60 feet with minimal air. This model is normally for light commercial diving and work.

Light breathing air? "Ah, yes ma'am, I'll have the prime rib, some fries, and some Air Light" Hmm.


They have 40' and 60' hoses, so basic math tells you that if you want to move anywhere other than directly under the compressor, you will not be going very deep.

 

[Boondocks]

Light breathing air? "Ah, yes ma'am, I'll have the prime rib, some fries, and some Air Light" Hmm.


They have 40' and 60' hoses, so basic math tells you that if you want to move anywhere other than directly under the compressor, you will not be going very deep.

well actually if the compressor is on the surface you are not breathing compressed air so you don't have to worry about NDL times, not that I like the idea!!!

 

[Spoon]

seems like a pretty useless device to me. maybe if you were underage, is this something like the padi bubblemakers for kids?

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

well actually if the compressor is on the surface you are not breathing compressed air so you don't have to worry about NDL times, not that I like the idea!!!

If I understand you correctly, which of I am not certain... IF you think you can stay at 60 feet "forever and ever" without getting to much nitrogen in your blood system, just because your air is COMPRESSED at the surface and fed to you through a hose, and not from a HP tank, I must dissappoint you. This is not correct. Your maximum dive time is exactly the same, only decided by the depths you're at.

 

[OE2X]

well actually if the compressor is on the surface you are not breathing compressed air so you don't have to worry about NDL times, not that I like the idea!!!

That would be 55 minutes at 60' NDL by my tables since you would be on compressed air!

 

[teknitroxdiver]

well actually if the compressor is on the surface you are not breathing compressed air so you don't have to worry about NDL times, not that I like the idea!!!

No, that is incorrect. You are still breathing compressed air. It's just that instead of coming from a tank on your back, it's coming down a hose. You're still breathing air at ambient pressure at depth, which means the NDLs are exactly the same.