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The One
24th March 2016, 13:34
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A STATE OF THE ART OXYGEN RESPIRATOR
that allows you to breathe underwater by utilizing our ‘artificial gills’ technology. Swim among tropical fish, marvel at exotic coral and experience the serene beauty of marine life − without having to come up for air. Welcome to Triton.

With Triton there’s no heavy equipment, complicated safety procedures or training. It's easy to use, and no longer than a snorkel. Gently bite into the mouthpiece, breathe normally, and enjoy a sense of underwater freedom unavailable until now. Just imagine exploring gin-clear waters, alongside tropical fish, without bulky equipment or having to surface for air

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it’s fun, but limited. With Triton you’ll be able to explore with a new sense of freedom.A fully-charged battery enables to 45 minutes of underwater pleasure. And with a maximum depth 15 feet, you’ll swim among marine life, rather than merely looking down on it. Triton empowers you with the ability to see and feel the vivid, sub-aquatic world close up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obqxzmmv7uM

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

General

Total length 29 Cm / 11.5 inches
Total width 12 Cm / 4.5 inches

Core Functionality

Triton employs cutting-edge technology to produce ‘artificial gills’. The Microporous Hollow Fiber makes breathing underwater possible.

The holes of the threads are smaller than water molecules, they keep water out and let oxygen in. The micro compressor then extracts and stores the oxygen – allowing you to breathe naturally and revel in your underwater freedom.

We are using a very powerful modified micro compressor, it compresses oxygen and stores the extracted oxygen in a storage tank. The micro compressor operates through a powerful modified lithium-ion battery.

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http://www.tritongills.com/#experience

Dreamtimer
24th March 2016, 14:24
Wow. In episode one of Star Wars where Qi Gon and Obiwan were on Naboo they swum down to the Gungan cities using devices that attached to their noses and gave them air. I think they went down more than 15' though. I really like snorkeling. This looks like it was made for me.

Bob
24th March 2016, 14:35
This is interesting.

I wonder how they solved the issues of

1) low oxygen water
2) CO2 removal
3) what happens when the diver exerts himself or herself - does the device alert, provide more O2?

The device apparently doesn't exist, "yet"

see: https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-triton-artificial-gills.t7417/


The campaign claims: "Triton. A state-of-the-art oxygen respirator, that allows you to breathe underwater by utilizing our ‘artificial gills’ technology. Swim among tropical fish, marvel at exotic coral and experience the serene beauty of marine life − without having to come up for air"

The device is claimed to "extract enough oxygen for a human to comfortably breathe underwater", by extracting dissolved oxygen from water using "Microporous Hollow Fiber. This is the pioneering technology that keeps water molecules out, and lets oxygen in", powered by a "modified lithium-ion battery" running a "modified micro compressor". Use in seawater is explicitly stated to be OK. Product photos and a short video are offered as evidence. They claim to have a working prototype.

History: Some people may remember the design from a viral 'news' item from couple of years ago. This was widely reported, including on reputable news sites, as if it was a real thing, however it eventually emerged that it was in fact purely a mock-up concept design produced by a student. The concept was explained to be so impractical as to be effectively impossible by a few people at the time. Now the design is back, this time apparently for sale. The uncritical previous news reports are the source of the 'quotes' on the indegogo page.

Debunk: The device shown cannot work as described (and even if it did, it would be extremely dangerous), there is simply too little dissolved gas in water to allow the principle to work in any practical way. The video presented is fake. There is no working prototype.

Evidence that the device cannot work as described:Note that the device is specifically claimed to allow a person to breathe comfortably, NOT that it performs any other more obscure actions to deliver metabolically required O2 and remove CO2 from the body.

One can see the debunked page: https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-triton-artificial-gills.t7417/ for more comments about the program and device proposal.

The One
24th March 2016, 14:46
This is interesting.

I wonder how they solved the issues of

1) low oxygen water
2) CO2 removal
3) what happens when the diver exerts himself or herself - does the device alert, provide more O2?

The device apparently doesn't exist, "yet"

see: https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-triton-artificial-gills.t7417/



One can see the debunked page: https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-triton-artificial-gills.t7417/ for more comments about the program and device proposal.

They also cant make thier minds up over here http://www.snopes.com/triton-scuba-mask-design/

Bob
24th March 2016, 15:05
They also cant make thier minds up over here http://www.snopes.com/triton-scuba-mask-design/

The idea of a "rebreather" has been around, not that the Triton claims are about being a rebreather (instead theirs is about extraction concepts and getting funding to explore the development. Selling a product which has no hopes of working though does sound like an abuse of the funding website that they are using to obtain development funds, IMHO..)

If the goal is to be able to safely swim and rebreath, and have CO2 removal from the air, this page:
https://www.deeperblue.com/the-electrolung/

about the "electrolung" may be more realistic.


In late 1968 the first operational version of the Electrolung was ready to go and so was El Torito. In November of that year I set out for Cozumel aboard El Torito with several new Electrolungs. Over the next few weeks I conducted a series of dives culminating in a descent to 400 feet where I photographed and collected a new species of gorgonian.

During the next two years I dived the Electrolung exploring the deep outer dropoffs of reefs from Cozumel to Belize and in various location in the Bahamas. This work involved the discovery of several more new species of fishes and invertebrates.

A story in the August 1970 issue of Skin Diver Magazine told the story of the development of the Electrolung and the September issue followed with a story by Paul Tzimoulis on making a 300 foot Electrolung dive with us on "The Wall" off Fresh Creek, Andros Island in the Bahamas. My story, "Probing the Deep Reef’s Hidden Realm", appeared in National Geographic Magazine in December 1972.

search on "ElectroLung" for what proved to be an actual working system.

In about 1971 I saw an actual computer controlled rebreather in a dive shop which specialized in state-of-the-art dive technology. I seem to remember a problem existed with water being able to leak into the controller board when under deep pressure.

Normally a regular rebreather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather_diving) is limited to about 33 feet. Mixed gas design is needed and apparently was solved with the ElectroLung system.