Looks like a couple of pellet gun c02 containers. I smell fish.
Posted on 10/27/2006 8:51:27 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
Looks like a couple of pellet gun c02 containers. I smell fish.
Coal Miners???? or does it have to be used under water???
Kewl!
I've got an old Aqua-Master regulator from days gone by. US Divers Co. says they are not safe and stopped making parts for 'em years ago. Worked fine the last time I used it.
I don't know enough about breathable compressed air technology but the claim of 55 minutes seems like a stretch.
Marine Boy used oxy-gum, if I recall.
Bond. James Bond.
For clean air to breathe in the event of a mine fire or other catastrophy. But the company's stock is selling right now for $0.004 a share, so I'm guessing post #1 is correct.
It's the weight and size that has me impressed. A regular tank for diving can last quite a while if you regulate your breathing properly. But it weighs a ton and it so bulky! This thing looks tiny! How very cool! A day when I can comfortably walk into the water is a good day! :)
The 'AVERAGE' scuba tank is about 8 inches in diameter, and just under 3 ft tall. Filled to a pressure greater than 1,000 psi; they last about 45-60 minutes of casual swimming; and weigh 20+ lbs.
The pressure in these small capsules would have to be on the orders of magnitude greater than 1,000 psi to get nearly an hour's worth of air in there.
Call me skeptical (and that's being very polite)
...and firefighters
"I don't know enough about breathable compressed air technology but the claim of 55 minutes seems like a stretch."
It will probably give 55 minutes of shallow breathing if you are lying down and not exerting yourself at all. It also probably helps if you weigh 90 pounds and are breathing at 10,000 feet altitude.
If you are exerting yourself a little bit, such as swimming, and are at 60 feet in water and weigh 200 pounds, my guess is that you would get 10 minutes of breathing.
Just a guess, but if you are breathing air without any remixing apparatus, there are physical constraints of lung capacity, air pressure, and the strength of the air tanks, that limit the amount of time such a device can provide.
5 minutes, maybe.
This smells like a stock pump and dump.
In order for cylinders that size to be able to supply 55-60 minutes of air, the air pressure inside them would have to be absolutely enormous. Scuba tanks with 3,000 psi inside them have walls a quarter inch thick, and you have to swim shallow and breathe carefully to get an hour out of one.
Great excuse to use the Diver ping list!
And most likely it's overpriced.
Shaken, not stirred.
But will it continue to work fine until the LAST time you use it?..........
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