"LIKE A FISH UNDER WATER"new way to breath under water without oxygen tanks

isracast.com — An Israeli Inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing underwater without the assistance of compressed air tanks. This new invention will use the relatively small amounts of air that already exist in water to supply oxygen to both scuba divers and submarines. The invention has already captured the interest of most major Mar 23, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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ryanscott Mar 23, 2007

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didn't they use that type of thing in star wars when going down with jar jar to his underwater colony thing?

Closed Account Mar 24, 2007

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As a scuba diver, this looks cool. but also dangourus. the amount of deaths using re breather is huge. and this is even more complex. (if you not a scuba diver don't argue)

widoka Mar 24, 2007

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First of all...we don't need two comments about this from you. Secondly, I'm pretty sure I can speak for the vast majority of us when I say that we aren't reading this article with the intent of investing in this technology. So thanks for trying to protect us, but really...we don't need it.

managemyrights Mar 24, 2007

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Would you still need to decompress and follow standard dive tables? I know it is taking oxygen with trace gases, but you are still under pressure so I'm not sure.

mharrison Mar 24, 2007

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digg me down if I'm totally wrong, maybe i miss understood something in my PADI course(which was a while ago and i don't dive much) but I thought there were other restrictions on bottom time in addition to air supply. Like if you go down to like 20 meters and your down there for more than 45 min you need like decompression or something.. So with the "JEWBA" I don't know if you could stay down there for that much longer. I dunno its been a while I could be really wrong. Also, without the weight of the tank wouldn't you need a serious weight belt for buoyancy?Otherwise sounds like a sick invention.