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> According to ANTHONY APPLEYARD... > > I now have Aquacorps #8. Page 49 (1-page article by R.W.Hamilton) shows what > might be the real original behind the recent rumors of an ultra-small > short-duration Japanese sport diving rebreather. <snip> I saw something on the Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000 where someone in Japan had developed a real micro-rebreather. It looked like a large version of that gizmo Sean Connery used in Thunderball. The mouthpiece was attached to a tube about 1.5-2 inches in diameter and about 18 inches long. In front of that were two oxygen cylinders about the size of large CO2 cartridges (like BC inflators). In operation, the O2 trickles in and the diver inhales it then exhales through the scrubber tubes which then inflates the flexable expansion tubes which are back mounted and attached to the scrubber.The next inhalation draws in the scrubbed air from the flex tubes and the process repeats. Of course it's limited to <20 feet and I wouldn't expect to see a very good safety record associated with it, especially for casual divers. ============================================================================== Chris Elmore University of South Carolina chris@ot*.hs*.sc*.ed* Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory (803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208
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