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Go to a good bike shop and look for a drinking system called a "Camelbak". You may have to where it on the front instead of your back as cyclists, rock climbers, Navy Seals do, (tank weight on top of camelbak on your back may damage or empty it). You could fill it with Ultra Fuel by Twinn Lab and NEVER get hungry or thirsty on a dive again! Basically the insulated cover contains a plastic bladder with a tube running out from the bottom. The tube is normally fed by gravity to push fluid through it and up to your mouth at the other end of the 2.5 foot tube. At the end their is a bite plug which will release, actually gush out fluid from the gravity feed on land when lightly bitten inside your mouth. Under water you would just have to suck on the bite plu and it will work fine---the bladder will shrink as the volume of liquid you drink decreases. The bite plug will not let salt water in. At about $30 you don't have much of a gamble, and I'm sure you'll like it. And since ALL tech divers should be doing aerobic excercise like cycling, running, kayaking, cross country skiing, skating , etc---you should have one anyway! Regards, Dan >Now here's a serious tech diving topic if ever I saw one. > >I don't do many deep dives or any requiring long deco but I do do lots of >long duration dives (usually lying around on the bottom watching fish most >of the time). What is increasingly driving me back to dry land is not a >lack of air (or film) but hunger. I haven't tried eating/drinking >underwater (not that I can remember anyway, friends have), I was wondering: > > a) Is it possible/wise to snack out UW? > > b) What are good foods to choose (I thought condensed milk (in a > tube off-course) would be good, maybe jelly babies (may be > uncontrolable though))? > > c) Is all that extra salt really good for you? > > d) Any recipies? > >Surely folks wouldn't undertake long penetration dives or dives requiring >long deco without some sustenance. What is the secret? > >Simon > >"..fear creates it's own reality." - Simon L Hartley > >Kryton (programing time gauntlet): "...all that remains is for me to go >back in time and sacrifice myself so we can get ourselves into the mess >were in now... ...all in all todays been a bit of a bummer hasn't it >sir!!" > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Simon L Hartley o o Oo o >Associate Lecturer in Resource Technology oo o o >Faculty of Resource Science and Management o oo _____ o oo >Southern Cross University o (_/-\_) oo >P.O. Box 157 ===(S) o >Lismore NSW, Australia 2480 >Ph: (066) 203 251 or (61 66) 203 251 >Fax:(066) 212 669 E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au* >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > > Dan Volker SOUTH FLORIDA DIVE JOURNAL http://www.florida.net/scuba/dive 407-683-3592
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