What would make Your diving experience better?

[Artschool]

I would like a fish finder built into my mask like in predator.

if it could make the noise like the motion detector from alien, that would be great as well.

 

[SubSub]

My diving experience would shure be a whole lot better if I lived in a place where spearfishing was allowed... and the water temp was not averaging 8,52C (on a year basis)... and we had salt water with all it's fantastic critters...

 

[Bob1551]

I have something perhaps quite futuristic in mind: A combination of a Rebreather and a device similar to a fish's gill. Basically so that the stuff we carry underwater is as small as possible, and using all the oxygen available underwater (some oxygen from a small cylinder perhaps, some from our outgoing breathes and some from the water itself).

The idea for the "fish-gills" I got from the first new Star Wars movie. So yes, maybe this idea is too Scyfy-ish.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scit...eathing-mask-concept-mimics-fish-gills/story/

Anyway, for me the best thing about diving is the freedom underwater, freedom of movement especially. The thing I never liked about Scuba Diving was the huge BCD we have to carry around, including the tank and all the other technical equipment (that's why I prefer Freediving now - but that has other, obvious liminations like bottom time).

Maybe someone with technical expertise can help out here and say why this is rather impossible... but if it works some day it would be quite cool.

 

[ronscuba]

I have something perhaps quite futuristic in mind: A combination of a Rebreather and a device similar to a fish's gill. Basically so that the stuff we carry underwater is as small as possible, and using all the oxygen available underwater (some oxygen from a small cylinder perhaps, some from our outgoing breathes and some from the water itself).

The idea for the "fish-gills" I got from the first new Star Wars movie. So yes, maybe this idea is too Scyfy-ish.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scit...eathing-mask-concept-mimics-fish-gills/story/

Anyway, for me the best thing about diving is the freedom underwater, freedom of movement especially. The thing I never liked about Scuba Diving was the huge BCD we have to carry around, including the tank and all the other technical equipment (that's why I prefer Freediving now - but that has other, obvious liminations like bottom time).

Maybe someone with technical expertise can help out here and say why this is rather impossible... but if it works some day it would be quite cool.

BCD can be very small and you could use a smaller tank. He is a picture of me wearing a minimalist BCD and a standard aluminum 80 tank. Tanks are available in all kinds of sizes: 63, 50, 40, 30 19, 13, etc..

 

[Bob1551]

BCD can be very small and you could use a smaller tank. He is a picture of me wearing a minimalist BCD and a standard aluminum 80 tank. Tanks are available in all kinds of sizes: 63, 50, 40, 30 19, 13, etc..

I'm guessing you are wearing a Backplate and Wing in that foto? That setup is indeed what I will buy next for scuba diving, it seems quite minimalistic. About the tanks, sure you can go smaller, but that obvisouly decreases the bottom time. Additionally, instead of an aluminium tank you could opt for a steel tank (standard here in Germany), so that you can increase the pressure but keep the volume. Heavier, but also less weights in the belt are needed

 

[ronscuba]

Yes, I use a backplate and wing. I also have the hoses on my regulator at specific lengths and routed to be streamlined.

I don't own my own tanks because I travel to dive. Maybe when I retire I will move to a location with good local diving and buy my own tank. I probably would buy something smaller than the standard aluminum 80.

 

[bobone11]

A good solution to signal buddy on deep dive. Let's say I got tangled so bad at 80m,what can I do to tell my buddy .

"goodbye"