I've long been interested in making my scuba diving experience have the mobility and feeling of freedom in the water that I have when I'm freediving. I've built and tested several scuba kits in pursuit of this goal. One of my early experiments was documented here on DeeperBlue early in 2016, as part of a four part series on diver drag.
Streamlined back mount kit: https://www.deeperblue.com/diving-performance-beyond-drag-part-3/
Since then I have continued to experiment, with some failures and some successes. My latest kit has been evolving to where it is working fairly well and I'm enjoying diving it. I'm no longer trying to develop anything for commercial development. The performance I'm trying to achieve is ahead of it's time and I don't think there is enough of a market to support commercial development. I'm just trying to make scuba diving an activity that doesn't suck in comparison to my freediving experiences. This kit feels like freediving, except that I get to breath.
I also like to shoot video while I'm diving, and feel that it is important that my equipment is effective in this capacity. While not video that explicitly showcases the experimental equipment, it does show some of it and more importantly shows examples of what I can do with it. I hope you all find this interesting.
Maybe one possible commercial application for this technology in the near term is to use it as a diver for hire to video fast marine animals that are hard to video due to their speed. I'm hoping to get to Hawaii soon and maybe I'll get to video some cetaceans while I'm there.
Streamlined back mount kit: https://www.deeperblue.com/diving-performance-beyond-drag-part-3/
Since then I have continued to experiment, with some failures and some successes. My latest kit has been evolving to where it is working fairly well and I'm enjoying diving it. I'm no longer trying to develop anything for commercial development. The performance I'm trying to achieve is ahead of it's time and I don't think there is enough of a market to support commercial development. I'm just trying to make scuba diving an activity that doesn't suck in comparison to my freediving experiences. This kit feels like freediving, except that I get to breath.
I also like to shoot video while I'm diving, and feel that it is important that my equipment is effective in this capacity. While not video that explicitly showcases the experimental equipment, it does show some of it and more importantly shows examples of what I can do with it. I hope you all find this interesting.
Maybe one possible commercial application for this technology in the near term is to use it as a diver for hire to video fast marine animals that are hard to video due to their speed. I'm hoping to get to Hawaii soon and maybe I'll get to video some cetaceans while I'm there.