Forgot to add, the times I’ve seen it, the participants usually have snorkel vests. These units are generally 30 feet maximum length. One of the boats I was on had one diver per every four Snuba participants. Listening to their briefing, they had a weight belt drop exercise and were told not to hold their breath. They had a “dive plan” but it really wasn’t anything I would call a plan.
This is a Hookah system. Brownie's makes them for varying depth. They are well engineered, manufactured to high standards and safe to use with proper training. Some systems are good for 60 foot depth or more.
That’s a hookah setup. Also called Snuba (snorkel + Scuba). There is a compressor on a raft above. The depth is limited to the length of the hose which is about 6 m. This limits the risks of DCS, but not DCI. Quite often these operations don’t ask for Scuba certifications. That’s the attraction for many people, because you don’t know what you don’t know.
@@narkedtomNever seen it in person (full scale), but it seems to be mainly warm countries with lots of tourists. I was wrong about the compressor, but the way, it could be a compressor or a tank. There are also fishermen, mostly in the Philippines and the Caribbean, who use a compressor setup, but without a regulator (just a hose in the corner of the mouth). This is, of course even more hazardous, as 1, the supplied air pressure decreases with depth, and 2: a kink in the hose can cut off the air without warning.
@@narkedtomI’ve seen it off of dive boats from several of The Bahamian islands, Southern California Channel Islands years ago, Mexico, most of the Hawaiian islands, Florida Keys, Jamaica, and probably most places I’ve been diving at. Scariest thing is they sell kits for Snuba that require no experience or training at all.
@@narkedtom I've seen it all over when I was working as a local dive guide/instructor. Florida and USVI. They are in my opinion terribly risky. Imagine less training than a discover scuba experience. With people not even needing any experience to purchase the setup which they can then take people that imagine it is "just like snorkeling". I'm not saying everyone that uses these are unsafe or even those that have legit business guiding tours are all bad. BUT, I have seen some pretty shady practices.
@@narkedtom snuba and a compressor ran hookah system are different. SNUBA uses a tank on a raft /kayak type thing, hookah with a compressor has a float with..a compressor. Look up Brownies Third Lung. SNUBA has been around since mid 90's, Hookah systems since the 50's. The safety record is no worse than scuba discover classes for snuba and Hookah requires certification same as scuba (I actually am an instructor for from ages ago) Oh, fish have fins, mammals have flippers. Cousteau, Hass, early UTD divers, Lloyd Bridges and more called them flippers. The whole "SCUBA DIVERS CALL THEM FINS" thing is ego by insecure scuba diver and instructors that wanna feel "special". 30 years in industry and over 7,000 dives, I happily will call them flippers
Thwy are not deeper than 6meters. At 6 meters your no deco limit is infinite. That is the last stop depth for any dive so no DCI. 10meters is souble pressure, from this 6m< depth lungs expansion is only 50% and in the scenario when theres a kink and someone tryes to pull air and theres none, their lungs are practically empty, lungs damage wont happen. I bet all those hoses are connected to some kind of compressor so no need for a spg because supply is infinite. But yeah, clownshow activity anyway
That hose kink is the most Final Destination thing I've seen in a while lol.
Forgot to add, the times I’ve seen it, the participants usually have snorkel vests. These units are generally 30 feet maximum length. One of the boats I was on had one diver per every four Snuba participants. Listening to their briefing, they had a weight belt drop exercise and were told not to hold their breath. They had a “dive plan” but it really wasn’t anything I would call a plan.
This is a Hookah system. Brownie's makes them for varying depth. They are well engineered, manufactured to high standards and safe to use with proper training. Some systems are good for 60 foot depth or more.
That’s a hookah setup. Also called Snuba (snorkel + Scuba).
There is a compressor on a raft above.
The depth is limited to the length of the hose which is about 6 m.
This limits the risks of DCS, but not DCI.
Quite often these operations don’t ask for Scuba certifications. That’s the attraction for many people, because you don’t know what you don’t know.
Thank you for the extra context. I have never heard of this before. Do you know where 'Snuba' happens?
@@narkedtomNever seen it in person (full scale), but it seems to be mainly warm countries with lots of tourists.
I was wrong about the compressor, but the way, it could be a compressor or a tank.
There are also fishermen, mostly in the Philippines and the Caribbean, who use a compressor setup, but without a regulator (just a hose in the corner of the mouth).
This is, of course even more hazardous, as 1, the supplied air pressure decreases with depth, and 2: a kink in the hose can cut off the air without warning.
@@narkedtomI’ve seen it off of dive boats from several of The Bahamian islands, Southern California Channel Islands years ago, Mexico, most of the Hawaiian islands, Florida Keys, Jamaica, and probably most places I’ve been diving at. Scariest thing is they sell kits for Snuba that require no experience or training at all.
@@narkedtom I've seen it all over when I was working as a local dive guide/instructor. Florida and USVI. They are in my opinion terribly risky. Imagine less training than a discover scuba experience. With people not even needing any experience to purchase the setup which they can then take people that imagine it is "just like snorkeling". I'm not saying everyone that uses these are unsafe or even those that have legit business guiding tours are all bad. BUT, I have seen some pretty shady practices.
@@narkedtom snuba and a compressor ran hookah system are different. SNUBA uses a tank on a raft /kayak type thing, hookah with a compressor has a float with..a compressor. Look up Brownies Third Lung.
SNUBA has been around since mid 90's, Hookah systems since the 50's.
The safety record is no worse than scuba discover classes for snuba and Hookah requires certification same as scuba (I actually am an instructor for from ages ago)
Oh, fish have fins, mammals have flippers. Cousteau, Hass, early UTD divers, Lloyd Bridges and more called them flippers. The whole "SCUBA DIVERS CALL THEM FINS" thing is ego by insecure scuba diver and instructors that wanna feel "special". 30 years in industry and over 7,000 dives, I happily will call them flippers
This setup is really daft . If someone knocked that hose out their mouth. Or tangled up hose . Yeah don't do this.
I am testing new equipment at night dives at 30 m deep 😂😂😂
Please do some fresh water dive videos ?
Thwy are not deeper than 6meters. At 6 meters your no deco limit is infinite. That is the last stop depth for any dive so no DCI.
10meters is souble pressure, from this 6m< depth lungs expansion is only 50% and in the scenario when theres a kink and someone tryes to pull air and theres none, their lungs are practically empty, lungs damage wont happen.
I bet all those hoses are connected to some kind of compressor so no need for a spg because supply is infinite.
But yeah, clownshow activity anyway
similar korean dive fisherman 😅