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!
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.
@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.
@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.
@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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