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??? about breathing under a boat
Ace-high wrote:
You can get an oilless compressor NOTE OILLESS and 50-60 ft of air breathing hose and a regular scuba regulator. You need about 100 psi to run a low pressure - mouth regulator. A friend just did this with a small 120 vac compressor - it is just a little too small and it gets hard to breath down at the 6' bottom of his keel. The comp was about $100, the mouth reg will be maybe $100+ - look for all this stuff on eBay. I have a 50' hose that I use on my regular scuba tank, hi pressure and lo pressure regulators - the extension hose goes between the hi press reg on the tank and the lo pres regulator in the mouth. Biggest issue for any of these is getting the connections to work - threads - sizes, etc. Make sure that they all fit together before you buy anything. Apparently this is right & works pretty well, no tank fills & no rip off BS from the dive fraternity:-). The advantage being you can't get too deep because the little oiless compressors just can't supply the air. The only caution is make sure you install a one way valve in the supply line, as close as reasonable to the mouth reg. or use a specific hooker unit mouth reg (they have an extra valve built in). The risk is that if there's a hose failure at the surface your lungs will be exposed to atm pressure while your chest is subject to some psi, apparently your tongue can suffer if no valve is fitted. K On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:00 GMT, wrote: I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under a houseboat, but am wondering if a hose could be made to work, or maybe a larger piece of tubing with a hose attached so it's small enough to be held in your mouth. Or something...? |
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??? about breathing under a boat
"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:00 GMT, wrote: I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under a houseboat, but am wondering if a hose could be made to work, or maybe a larger piece of tubing with a hose attached so it's small enough to be held in your mouth. Or something...? Cheap and dirty way; Borrow or possibly you own a non-oil lubricated air pump (teflon). Set air pressure at about 10 lbs and tape or clamp hose to a snorkel that has a blowout reed near the mouthpiece. Caution! the blowout reed is important to insure you don't embolism your lungs. Caution! never use oil lubricated air pump to breathe from. |
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??? about breathing under a boat
"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message ...
"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:00 GMT, wrote: I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under a houseboat, but am wondering if a hose could be made to work, or maybe a larger piece of tubing with a hose attached so it's small enough to be held in your mouth. Or something...? Cheap and dirty way; Borrow or possibly you own a non-oil lubricated air pump (teflon). Set air pressure at about 10 lbs and tape or clamp hose to a snorkel that has a blowout reed near the mouthpiece. Caution! the blowout reed is important to insure you don't embolism your lungs. Caution! never use oil lubricated air pump to breathe from. Get a diving ticket and use SCUBA ! Life is to short without endangering it by attempting to do things the 'cheap' way. And with SCUBA you can use the positive bouyancy of your wetsuit to stand upside down on the hull of the vessel and use a yard broom to 'sweep' it down.... Also: Attempting to breath air at atmosphere pressure underwater through a pipe does not work :-) |
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??? about breathing under a boat
"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:00 GMT, wrote: I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under I have used a "Dri-Diver" for cleanng the bottom of my Catalina 30. It is done from the deck and you don't even have to get wet. It does a nice job on the bottom, but unfortunately, it does not clean the prop. For that, I just dive over the side a few times, and using an old oyster knife, I scrape off the barnacles. I usually have to do this twice a year, since my slip is in quiet water that promotes a fair amount of growth. My first mate always holds on to the bitter end of a line that I have looped under my arms loosely. Hope that this helps. Kevin |
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??? about breathing under a boat
If you are the Steve Shelikoff who is at Penns Landing {in Philly}, drop me
a line. If you can make it up river, the club I belong to has a seawall and pretty good beach, at low tide. Because of the tide swing, possibly you could do the job 'standing up'. 'Ducking under' with only a dive mask. Regards, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop " "Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under a houseboat, but am wondering if a hose could be made to work, or maybe a larger piece of tubing with a hose attached so it's small enough to be held in your mouth. Or something...? |
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??? about breathing under a boat
It depends on what you mean by easy and economical. E-Bay is a good place
to start for a base price on hookah systems and scuba systems. There are current listings for both types in the $2k range and both types require scuba certification. IMHO hepatitis vaccination out to be required too. Marinas and sewers have a lot in common. Regards, Boatdreams. |
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??? about breathing under a boat
Have you guys heard of Scuba? Or Snuba?
Scuba is obvious but snuba(?) is a surface compressor that delivers air to divers up to 30' feet down. If you call your local dive shop they usually have a list of divers who will do these things for you. If there are no dive shops near by try a golf course, divers collect balls from the water traps! John "Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:00 GMT, wrote: I'd like to clean the bottom of my boat, while it's in the water. Is there a fairly easy and economical way of breathing while a few feet below the surface? A snorkle won't work because I'll be going under a houseboat, but am wondering if a hose could be made to work, or maybe a larger piece of tubing with a hose attached so it's small enough to be held in your mouth. Or something...? How long can you hold your breath? Ok, I'm not suggesting to clean the bottom this way but seriously though, If I'm not in a position to haul the boat and the shaft zinc needs to be changed, I change it by just holding my breath for a little bit at a time. It takes a few trips though. To make the trips faster I tie a loop in the end of a rope and the first trip down is looping it over the prop. The other end is either tied to the dock or a stanchion. So I can pull myself up and down with the rope quickly. Then I take the zinc down and put a screw in by hand. That takes a trip. Then the other screw, another trip. Then tighten one then the other, two more trips. Then I take a hammer down and pound the contacts in, another trip. Then 2 more trips to tighten the screws again. Then one last trip to unloop the rope. So it takes maybe 10 trips down to do the whole thing and each trip is like 6 or 7 feet long (around 4 feet over and 4 feet down). But it's not as bad as it sounds. One word of advice though, keep a good knife handy. One time I was changing the zinc and the loop of thin line I used to keep the allen wrench from dropping (I tie a loop around my wrist and let the allen key hang from that so it's not in the way in transit and I don't drop it when fumbling to get it in the screw) got snagged on something. I think it wrapped around the shaft or prop, I don't remember. Well, when it was time to come up for air I couldn't get it untangled. So I just grabbed the knife and sliced the line and came up. I lost the allen key but that's better than the alternative. From then on I just use thin monofilament or thread or something that's easily snapped in case I have to. But I still carry the knife just in case. Steve |
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