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Go to a good bicycle shop and get a Camelbak---its exactly what you are theorizing about and better. An isulated outer cover over a 32 ounce plastic bladder with internal tube leading from bottom, extending about 2.5 feet to a bite plug you can place in your mouth and suck you sport drink of choice out of it. And the bite plug will not let saltwater in as long as you evacuate any air in the tube before you jump in the water. They cost about $30 in Florida, and I think are in the direct mail Performance catalogs. Dan >Greg Leafe writes: >>The idea of inwater rehydration is I think a sound one, I don't think that >>the Scuda with its 12 ozs will be all that great but something with move >>storage would probably be more usefull. In one case of DCI that happened to >>a friend it was basically decided that he got hit because he was so >>dehydrated his blood volume was sludge. >>Any more thoughts? > >At the risk of being tagged a nickelrocketeer -- we've seen the SCUDA suggested, >as well as the fanny-pack flasks. How about a vinyl bag mounted in the dead space >between doubles, or between a main and a pony? This should be something that would >be easy to jury-rig. As long as the bag contained no air, it should hold any >volume of water (your noncarbonated rehydration fluid goes here). > >I guess you'd want a drinking tube down to the bottom of the bag, and you'd >need to hover head-up for it to work well. A water-tight cap is a given. > >Several years ago I saw a suitable bag sold to motorcycle racers that >wasfilled with ice water and placed in the channel up the middle of your back >to keep racers cool during sprint races. If these are still available, you'd >need only to drop a drinking tube down the middle and silicone it into the cap. > >Jim Strohm >PADI OWSI 51985 >-- >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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