This must be the most misleading and absurd diving video ever made.
Perhaps they are suggesting that for use of the spare-air in overhead environments, to compensate for the pitiful lack of sufficient breathing gas in a spare-air bottle, the diver must take along a dive scooter to extract himself at speed from the danger?
@rodolfosgg7 I google around on that earlier. I saw some guy ho tested the Spare Air. At 35 feet the bottle lasted for about 2 1/2 minute. At 60 feet it lasted about 1 1/2 minute.
I think i´m gonna buy this thing. Not as some stupid toy but as a little extra bottle if something happen when I diving. If your not diving to deep it would be no trouble getting to the surface with the Spare...
@grimlund i would not recommended it for deep dives. with only 1.5 min at 60 feet you would not be able to do any safety stops or have any room for error. the best over all redundant air would be at least a 19 cuft pony tank. Thats like having an extra 750 PSI in your main tank. if an unexpected out of air event happened you could get back to the top just as safe as with your normal tank at a slower pace with almost no chance of getting the bends. look around locally for a cheap pony and reg
i think that the spare air was designed to delay your death by a more few breaths...
exelent video ! some may find this spare air handy, some not... I personaly think that if you do run out of air, it is you fault (you werent monitoring your left over air, diving with bad equpment or withuot a buddy....). Atleast that's what the instructor thougt me...
@TheRoknemec I was thinking about buying a spare air to do some dives in a natural pool where I'm always within 6-7 meters of surface. Just enough air to go to the bottom, plant a camera and retrieve it later. When I did the math on how much time I'd actually have it was like 5 minutes in an office chair environment. Then I was thinking if I ran out and I panicked i'd probably hurt my lungs resurfacing. So... thinking about getting scuba certified.
@wayoutfilms - the comedy is that he's deep in a cave, and his backup device is 20 breathes at most (the yellow sidemount is the obvious backup, or isolating his doubles, if the manifold had failed)
That is the awesomest video evar!!! I was going to buy a pony bottle, but if Spare Air is that good, I am sold now!!! Too bad they did not show him stopping to grab his cave fills too. That would have been a great promotion for the product as well.
@gardogg65 That was an exit from the Henkle on a scooter (Tenkna). Depth is around 100 ft, time on scooter is about 15 minutes depending on current flow and battery charge remaining on the scooter. The Henkle is 3100 ft back in the cave - he'd have made it a hundred ft or so, probably less if he was stressed and breathing hard. Not a tough recovery though.
Complete fiction. Those cylinders have nowhere near enough air for that type of scenario. You would be lucky to make a direct ascent from 40m up to the surface with one, let alone a cave exit on a scooter.
Good grief!
This must be the most misleading and absurd diving video ever made.
Perhaps they are suggesting that for use of the spare-air in overhead environments, to compensate for the pitiful lack of sufficient breathing gas in a spare-air bottle, the diver must take along a dive scooter to extract himself at speed from the danger?
LOL
HowieInTheUK 6 months ago
He should have shared air with the camera man.
gauge010 7 months ago
Hoy much time does the air lasts?
rodolfosgg7 8 months ago
@rodolfosgg7 I google around on that earlier. I saw some guy ho tested the Spare Air. At 35 feet the bottle lasted for about 2 1/2 minute. At 60 feet it lasted about 1 1/2 minute.
I think i´m gonna buy this thing. Not as some stupid toy but as a little extra bottle if something happen when I diving. If your not diving to deep it would be no trouble getting to the surface with the Spare...
grimlund 6 months ago
@grimlund i would not recommended it for deep dives. with only 1.5 min at 60 feet you would not be able to do any safety stops or have any room for error. the best over all redundant air would be at least a 19 cuft pony tank. Thats like having an extra 750 PSI in your main tank. if an unexpected out of air event happened you could get back to the top just as safe as with your normal tank at a slower pace with almost no chance of getting the bends. look around locally for a cheap pony and reg
ermaclob 6 months ago
i think that the spare air was designed to delay your death by a more few breaths...
exelent video ! some may find this spare air handy, some not... I personaly think that if you do run out of air, it is you fault (you werent monitoring your left over air, diving with bad equpment or withuot a buddy....). Atleast that's what the instructor thougt me...
TheRoknemec 1 year ago
@TheRoknemec I was thinking about buying a spare air to do some dives in a natural pool where I'm always within 6-7 meters of surface. Just enough air to go to the bottom, plant a camera and retrieve it later. When I did the math on how much time I'd actually have it was like 5 minutes in an office chair environment. Then I was thinking if I ran out and I panicked i'd probably hurt my lungs resurfacing. So... thinking about getting scuba certified.
slunkmonky 9 months ago
ok so im not a diver...why is this so funny? is a spare air not good?
wayoutfilms 1 year ago
@wayoutfilms - the comedy is that he's deep in a cave, and his backup device is 20 breathes at most (the yellow sidemount is the obvious backup, or isolating his doubles, if the manifold had failed)
CarMoves 1 year ago
Hilarious!
TheDivor 1 year ago
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
TheSkimFisher 1 year ago
What cave was that? Ginnie Springs???
That is the awesomest video evar!!! I was going to buy a pony bottle, but if Spare Air is that good, I am sold now!!! Too bad they did not show him stopping to grab his cave fills too. That would have been a great promotion for the product as well.
txapacheguy 1 year ago
Nicely done. Maybe even the comment replies that are taking this seriously are even funnier. (I'm buying doubles!)
HollywoodWalkofFame 1 year ago
Hopefully new divers will recognize this as a joke.
mavica130 1 year ago
ROFL is he in a cave or something like a mile long!? Spare air is like 1.5 to 2 min I thought lolol
gardogg65 1 year ago
@gardogg65 That was an exit from the Henkle on a scooter (Tenkna). Depth is around 100 ft, time on scooter is about 15 minutes depending on current flow and battery charge remaining on the scooter. The Henkle is 3100 ft back in the cave - he'd have made it a hundred ft or so, probably less if he was stressed and breathing hard. Not a tough recovery though.
mfascuba 1 year ago
That's hilarious. Good job!
asainslie 2 years ago
Very funny
asainslie 2 years ago
Was that DIR?
risban1 2 years ago
Complete fiction. Those cylinders have nowhere near enough air for that type of scenario. You would be lucky to make a direct ascent from 40m up to the surface with one, let alone a cave exit on a scooter.
andydavis710 2 years ago
They had cave fills...
loquat149 2 years ago
I didn't see proper MOD markings on that spare air...
blackwoodma 2 years ago 2