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Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks
Charlie Paglee writes "An Israeli inventor has developed a way for divers to breathe underwater without cumbersome oxygen tanks. His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water like the gills of a fish. With patents in Europe and the USA how long will it take for someone to use this to swim the English Channel underwater?"
i bet it's been tankless work. (sorry :)
It's about time that technology is catching up with Star Wars. Now I can stay on the bottom of the swimming pool longer!
It's a suppository.
ow long will it take for someone to use this to swim the English Channel underwater?
About 10 minutes, just enough time for the keel of one of the kajillion freighters that go up and down the channel to hit the guy's head...
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will it use Intel chips?
Tankless Underwater Breathing Apparatus...
:)
I think that TUBA is already taken.
R.I.P.
You won't just be able to breath underwater--you'll take pleasure trips on the surface of the sun.
Sounds fun. Send me a postcard.
When going past a certain dept, I think it's mainly a O2 + Helium mix, hence divers sounding like Donard Duck.
Only the asian ones.
No, no, batteries are measured in libraries of congress per kilometer.
Oh well, what the hell...
With patents in Europe and the USA how long will it take for someone to use this to swim the English Channel underwater?"
I don't know. Probably about the same length of time it would take without the patents.
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I'm sure you're right -- in fact I'm having trouble thinking of ANY other activities where you can be under ten meters of water.
You won't be able to see anything in the postcard. He's going at night, so he won't burn up!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Great, now they're going to wrap you in chickenwire, set your feet in concrete, and drop you off the pier, where you will float in murky water for days until you starve, dissolve, get eaten or die of thirst.
Have a nice day.
Drowning.
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
Oh dear. The irony of having to "iron out" bugs in a hemoglobin-to-oxygen transfer system.
Hell, I don't care how many ATMs of pressure there are on me, it's still not going to be a fun experience. Even one small ATM would hurt.
Jedi knights build their own lightsabers. We know why you don't have one.
If you're swimming in the superheated water surrounding a volcanic vent on the ocean floor, I'd say you have more pertinent concerns than the extra sulfur your rebreather might be picking up.
Jeremy
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Looks like your really trading an oxygen limit for a battery limit.
Not so! You just need a really long extension cord and an AC adapter....
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