Mailing List Archive

Mailing List: techdiver

Banner Advert

Message Display

To: HeimannJ <heimannj@ma*.nd*.gt*.co*>
To: techdiver@opal.com
Subject: RE: air integrated computers
From: <rlair00@ig*.pe*.co*>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 11:49:59 PDT
It would seem to me -- given the success of the Nemesis -- that it won't be too
far in the future that each diver in a team would have an air-integrated
computer
that would determine DAC (dynamic air consumption), would have dissimilar tank
sizes input at the beginning of the dive, and would constantly calculate the
turn based on thirds, DAC, dissimilar tank sizes, EANx or air, depth, decomp
requirments, etc., etc. and have them all coordinated via digital 
transmission (a la Nemesis).

5 years from now, ROV (remotely operated vehicles) u/w devices - miniature
sized -
are used to explore unknown or inaccessible cave systems with live video feed
back to
the surface.

10 years from now, place 3 signal-source devices on the ground, spaced widely
apart, a team of divers goes into an unknown cave system and -- via
triangulation --
the system is surveyed real-time... no one ever gets lost, for the wrist-mounted
LCD screens show them exactly where they are.

Maybe 20 years from now, for tri-mix dives we'll have computer controlled
servo-valves that dynamically mix gases from 3 or 4 bottles on your back,
feed them into a semi-closed-circuit rebreather, servo-controlled valve from
an argon bottle into the dry-suit, and we'll have 12 hour bottom times
at 600fsw.  ???

40 years?  How about a device with a fist-sized fusion reactor that extracts
hydrogen and oxygen from the water directly into a rebreather, and extracts
deuterium for it's own fuel supplies (and, hey, have it extract some gold
while you're at it, and it'll pay for itself!) and provide heat to a dry-suit,
so we'll have bottom times measured in days. Call it, "VirtualGills".

How about a 1ATM suit that fits like a glove?

--------------------------------------------
E-mail: rlair00@ig*.pe*.co* (Robert Laird)
--------------------------------------------

Navigate by Author: [Previous] [Next] [Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject: [Previous] [Next] [Subject Search Index]

[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]

[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]