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| P.A.L.S. - My First Homemade Rebreather | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ...and I lived to tell about it. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| PALS (Plumbing Attachment Life Support) was my first homemade rebreather. It was made with about $10 in PVC and a few dollars more for the Acrylic tube. The counterlung is a Hyosung motorcycle tire tube and the breathing hoses are sink drains. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Look! There's me getting ready to test it in the water for the first time. I had just spent 15 minutes or so on a sofa (sofa diving) breathing on this thing. In case it didn't work, I wanted to pass out ABOVE the water. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| There I am, testing it in a 5 meter tank used for technical training (that is why it is murky green salt-water (like the ocean in Korea)). It worked quite well... as judged by the fact I am still alive. There is nothing like this in Korea. The Koreans are still undecided if I am brilliant or crazy. |
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| OOPS! Here is a design flaw. I decided to take it on and off, pull and tug on it, clumb around on some underwater equipment, etc. to see how well it held up. Well... it didn't. The endcap of the scrubber (which was held by the frame in which it sat) popped right off... with a sound like DOONK... GLUG Glug glug glug glug. I inhaled until water hit my mouth and headed for the surface. The frame SEEMED like a good idea but the strap holding the scrubber flexed just enough to allow the endcap to move past the frame. Lesson? Keep everything connected in a more positive way. |
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| The PALS has retired to a junkbox since I only use the STUD (Super Tiny Underwater Device) these days. | |||||||||||||||||||||