What's the future of scuba?

[JohnB47]

How about this: a closed-circuit rebreather that electrolyzes water to produce oxygen, allowing the diver to stay down for days at a time!

 

[Herk_Man]

How about this: a closed-circuit rebreather that electrolyzes water to produce oxygen, allowing the diver to stay down for days at a time!

Just oxygen? Then you bring OxTox into play. Oxygen plus anything else, then decompression comes into play. I don't think the option to stay down for days at a time is captured by this option.

 

[Crush]

How about this: a closed-circuit rebreather that electrolyzes water to produce oxygen, allowing the diver to stay down for days at a time!

Let's put aside the issue of oxtox for the moment. You could do this if you had an infinite supply of electricity and some very large reaction vessels with catalysts which did not degrade in time and did not get fouled by impurities in the water. Not practical, but I wish it were.

 

[DiveNav]

Few years from now every new diver will learn using our dive simulator

Few years from now you will learn how to use a specific NEW dive computer before buying one ..... because we will have an online specialty class for that NEW dive computer before it hits the shelf.

Alberto (aka eDiver)

 

[Crush]

Few years from now every new diver will learn using our dive simulator

Few years from now you will learn how to use a specific NEW dive computer before buying one ..... because we will have an online specialty class for that NEW dive computer before it hits the shelf.

Alberto (aka eDiver)

In the future you will even get spammed by pop-ups on your dive computer. At that point I will melt down my computers and embrace DIR/GUE.

 

[ambertiger]

Hi, well at least one of your wishes on the above list has come true. That is wetsuts with a built in heating circuit and adjustable thermostat! I am currently marketing this suit in Taiwan and will send it anywhere in the world. At the moment there are two types, one designed for surfers, dry suit wearers, cold climate sports people like skiers and climbers, this vest is waterproof to 15m then there is one designed for scuba divers good to 70m depth. It operates on 2 li-ion batteries, which will heat the vest for 150 mins. The batteries are recharchable in 90 mins so can be recharged during a surface interval from a car battery or mains. It has 3 heat settings warmer warmer and hot and it really works. Last week I was diving in 20C water in a 2mm wet suit with no hood and felt perfectly comfortable. It has been taken into water of 10C and the diver, wearing a 3mm with no hood, also felt great afterwards. It is way better and half the price of the O'Neil H-Bomb. The huge advantage of this is you drop all the weight you require to dive a 5mm~7mm or 9mm wet suit. If anyone reading this would like one or more info please PM me.