World's First Artificial Gills Re-breather

[diversteve]

Triton not. Dive, or dive not, there is no Triton. | Deep Sea News

 

[John A Lewis]

Triton not. Dive, or dive not, there is no Triton. | Deep Sea News

Came here to post the same article, which is an excellent technical debunking of why such a product cannot work as described. This is a scam, sweet and simple.

 

[tursiops]

Scam implies malice. This may simply be stupidity.

 

[emoreira]

I can believe that this BS goes on appearing here.

 

[John A Lewis]

Scam implies malice. This may simply be stupidity.

So what do you call a scheme that takes money from people for a product that does not and cannot exist?

 

[tursiops]

I am not going to say it CANNOT exist. I will say it is highly unlikely. We are surrounded by technology that could not exist, until it did. I don't see that the Triton violates any fundamental physics...but it sure violates what we know how to do today. I am all for innovation, but not by these three guys who are living a fantasy. They appear to be of the generation where anybody is entitled to do anything with the expectation they will succeed (and get a trophy)....you cannot fail is the mantra. They are about to experience reality.

 

[doctormike]

Scam implies malice. This may simply be stupidity.

No, they are claiming that they have a working prototype, which either does (miracle) or does not (malice, scam) exist.

Just based on the human tidal volume alone, I can't imagine how something like that could even theoretically work to produce enough gas for a single breath, let alone supply O2 requirements...

To get around the gas generation problem, you could have some sort of ECMO machine hooked up to the gil, but that would require a couple of big cannulas inserted in your femoral artery and vein before every dive. Wow, and I thought that rebreathers seemed like a lot of work!

 

[John A Lewis]

I am not going to say it CANNOT exist.

I can, without any hesitation whatsoever. This thing cannot exist.

This whole thing is a scam and fraud as presented.

 

[bergersau]

I find it telling that the the video of the device in use is edited so that every single shot is shorter than I can easily breath hold. - And I'm not a free diver...

 

[Maxpcf]

Just awful if this was a scam, 120k raised(stolen).

Oh well "a suckers born every minute."