DEMA SHOW 2019: The One New Scuba Gear Everyone Is Talking About!

This is the Hydroid Aquabreather. Is it a rebreather? No. Is it SCUBA? Yes, but not as you've ever seen it before!

Without a doubt, this is the one scuba diving product for 2019 that has created the most buzz at DEMA Show 2019. Everyone is talking about it on the exhibit floor and at the cocktail parties. It is truly out there, so I had to take a closer look...

Here is the Hydroid Aquabreather's website if you want more information:

The crowd for the pool demonstration was like nothing I'd ever seen at DEMA. People were either queuing up to watch a man drown, or they were eyeing the future of scuba diving.

I'm chatting with Egor from Hydroid about this wacky invention. As far as my opinion on it... you'll have to wait for me to go scuba diving with it and give it a review!

Part HALO, part NASA, part Darth Vader, the Hydroid Aquabreather uses proprietary canisters of a chemical blend that, once popped, gives off Oxygen. This is then cycled through your helmet and you can dive to a max. depth of 42m.

We have been at the DEMA Show for all four days and have shot a ton of video. There's plenty more product videos in this channel's future!

Dive safe, dive often!

James

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DEMA SHOW 2019: The One New Scuba Gear Everyone Is Talking About!

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[DiversReady]

WOW! This video has generated a lot of debate, which is what this channel is all about! Thanks for watching and subscribing!


I'm not going to answer all questions (as this was not a review video, more of a 'look what I found at DEMA' video) but the 4 most popular questions in the comments are:


1. How do I equalize my ears/clear the mask? (Exactly the same as a Full-face Scuba mask such as the OTS Guardian. It seals around your face like a FFM. There is a nose block, so pushing up against the bottom of the mask aids equalisation. You can clear the mask in the same way you clear a FFM.)


2. Do you need bailout? (Yes, absolutely, of course you would. You would need a seperate redundant gas source and a redundant mask.)


3. How much does it weigh? (The helmet is about 6lbs/2.7kg. It is supposedly neutrally buoyant in salt water.)


4. How much will it cost? (I have no idea! It's still at the working prototype stage. The cans are apparently going to run $25 each, and you need two per dive.)


Dive safe,


James

[a.i.chemist]

I've been using one of these for years. An earlier prototype meant for sports events. Depending on experience, 2 cans of the beer of your choice will last about 60 minutes. Baseball games tend to require more refills.

[cypherfx]

As a rebreather diver those cartridges don't look large enough to do what they're saying. You have no control over PPO2 and as you go deeper you're just getting more O2 generated which is the opposite of what you want. If they'd said only 10 meters that would be be fine for an O2 rebreather. I wouldn't take it deeper without a N2 cylinder to make up the gas volume.

[simeon]

Someone reverse-engineered Predator tech.

[captainjocassee]

I still use my James Bond Pen aqua breather. Still works 40 years later

[SkypowerwithKarl]

I think I’ll let someone else be the Guinea pig for a while. If you want to find out how many ways things can go wrong, just put it in the hands of the general public.

[philipbohi]

I'll try it just to see the look on the lobsters faces when they think they're about to get grabbed by a Russian Mig pilot from the movie Top Gun.

[Therabithole]

When humans are not designing bombs and missiles you get this

[jasonlacomb]

The important part of all of this isn't if THIS particular product is good or bad...

Someday, these will be the shoulders that someone else stands on to create the greatest product ever!!

Instead of "attacking" all these new inventions and inventors with negativity, let's encourage them to build, create and invent! Fostering a supportive dive community and encouraging growth, not just in the Eco side of things, but everywhere!!

Yeah, if we could that, that would be great!

[Sisu]

Average joe: so how much?
Hydroid: you can't afford it.

[yevgeniyminakov]

That's old military technology, we used somethings similar in the tank when you have to cross the open water . For the emergency evacuation . They call " IP 5" insulated gas mask 5 . I'm talking about Russian military

[maxschne]

Such a material as promoted in the cans reminds me of potassium superoxide, which is widely used by firefighters and mine rescue teams around the world in rebreathers. Interesting would be to know the exact reaction, because if it behaves like potassium superoxide and outputs more oxygen then the amount which originally was in the absorbed carbon dioxide, you will get an nearly pure oxygen atmosphere over time and would therefor be limited to six meters of depth while diving.

[DiveBC]

I love the idea. That said personally I would have used the new technology that absorbs co2 and creates O2 in a more main stream product to get buy in first then do a helmet if it's wanted. Hopefully the tech works as discribed and a new version of rebreathers comes to market over the next few years

[adventuredivers]

This is so cool but how can i clear my mask if it were to flood and equalize my ears with it

[zBones]

I'd much prefer a small back/ chest / or side mount, and MUCH smaller helmet / mask.

[marc_frank]

i would like it more if it was a streamline backpack with a wristwatch display
so you can choose your own goggles and don't have that huge glob on your head

[mysiriusfelix]

Why a Helm and not a slim streamline bcd design connected to my full face mask?
It just looks way to clumsy for a headware!
Idea is great but not as a helmet!

[sabioarsenault]

Very much have my doubt on this.


1st, the weight/bouyancy: This helmet seems extremebly buoyant. You would need added weight to your bouyancy compensator or weight belt to counteract the added bouyancy. Unless you place actual counter weights on the helmet, good luck looking down. Even if this helmet concept was working, you would still need to carry a bottle, most likely on your back, to "inflate" your bouyancy compensator. You would also need a harness or another form of neck damn, to guarentee beyon any form of doubt, that your helmet does not "pop-off" at depth.


2nd, the partial pressure of O2: Pure Oxigen becoms toxic at depth. Most diving tables will limit a dive on 100% O2 to 25ft / 8 meters depth. At 42meters you would most likely suffer from an instant grand mal seizue and die.


I can see this helmet working as explain but only at arround 20 feet / 6 meters. At that depth, you could use a simple weight belt / wetsuit and not have to worry about O2 toxicity at high partial pressure. You would also need counter weight to the helmet.

[adambrickley]

Interesting, wonder how bouyancy control is dealt with?

[frogmanant]

If you're a keen diver you are going to collect lots of cans of chemical waste.