SCORKL

Breathe underwater for up to 10 minutes

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Breathe underwater for up to 10 minutes

1 follower

SCORKL is a small, portable and easy to refill oxygen container for your underwater experience. It gives you up to 10 minutes of underwater exploration. It has a scuba tank pump so you can refill it anytime you want to dive. Use it cautiously and with a lot of fun!

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Joshua Dance

Summer Bod 2020

Looks super cool but a word of caution. Breathing compressed air underwater is no joke.. You can literally blow a hole in your lung by taking a breath of compressed air and then going to the surface. This can happen in less than 10 ft of water. I think this invention looks incredible, but hope they make users aware of the dangers, or get the training needed.

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8yr ago

Matt Samet

@joshdance I can't upvote this comment enough -- I don't think people understand how dangerous this can be if proper decompression procedure is not followed. As a certified diver, I've seen people get the bends in shallow water and there's absolutely *NO* disclaimer, warning or anything else on their Kickstarter campaign. For anyone considering this, I highly advise you educate yourself about DCS (the bends) and how to avoid it while diving. There are reasons people get scuba certified, don't short circuit all of that in one moment on a fun vacation and get yourself killed. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

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8yr ago

Jane Ess

IFTTT

@yozzozo @joshdance Came here just to see if anyone had said this! This is nuts. People can get the bends in a pool!

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8yr ago

Jane Ess

IFTTT

@yozzozo @joshdance But also I kind of want one 😬

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8yr ago

Bastien Billey

@joshdance Yeah First thing a diver friend said "it's the best way if you want to die" would not try it even if it's appealing ahah

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8yr ago

Markus Schuette

Cryptab

Why not design it like a camelbak or something similar instead of having a tank dangling in front your chin

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8yr ago

Marc Baiges Camprubí

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@markus_schuette it was also my first thought, that it was a weird looking way to go on diving. If you were given a blank paper to design an ergonomic solution from scratch I don't think you would come with this approach, but I guess they just build on top of the existing know how on oxygen tanks, which can keep gases in these extreme pressures.

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8yr ago

Markus Schuette

Cryptab

@marcbc Agreed, but they could have made it fit into a small backpack, fanny pack, or arm sleeve of some sort..

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8yr ago

André J

So cool 👍So how many pumps for 10min of air?

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8yr ago

Charles Thiery

@eonpilot good question ;)

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8yr ago

Thomas TomHawk Burningham

@eonpilot 1000 pumps = 1 minute of air.....😉

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8yr ago

André J

@thomas_tomhawk_burningham Ah cool, so you get workout as well 💪

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8yr ago

Benoit

@eonpilot As per the FAQ "At 3,000psi the Scorkl holds about 60 breaths at 1atm. It takes around ten pumps per breath to fill the Scorkl (600 pumps). It gets harder to pump as the pressure in the tank increases but it is manageable for an adult A steady pumping rhythm of 50/min (<1/sec) fills the tank in 12min. Most people will want to rest intermittently though which also allows the pump to cool down" So I guess about 15-20mn of pumping + rest which is not bad at all.

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8yr ago

André J

@benoit WoW. Great analysis. Hopefully this thing is sturdy and won't snap too fast.

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8yr ago