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Camping underwater in an inflatable dome tent

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 10:49:12 No.39712 View View Reply Original Report

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=XHV8I_Ck1Jo

This thing looks pretty big inside. If I made one a bit bigger with a floor to it and a steady supply of fresh air I think I could live in it comfortably for 1 or 2 days at a time. I was thinking a long ass extension cord ending in a power strip for stuff like space heaters and a hairdryer to dry myself off after I climb I side so I can sleep well.

How much could I expect to pay for all the shit I'd need to build something of this nature?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 10:52:17 No.39717 Report

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I can tell you right now, that's gonna be miserably humid. No way you'll be falling asleep in there. Also you're looking at sveral grand just for the ten tons or so of lead you.all need to hold down that much air.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 10:54:50 No.39720 Report

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What is that made of? Vinyl? Jesus Christ what if it ripped or burst while you were sleeping?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 10:57:19 No.39724 Report

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I'm gonna swim down there and slash it open with a knife while you're asleep OP. Just to teach you not to tempt the wratch of Poseidon with your hubris.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:17:22 No.39754 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:18:00 No.39757 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:19:23 No.39760 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:19:43 No.39762 Report

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>Ooh, what's this big, inflatable dome doing at the bottom of the sea?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:20:46 No.39763 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:21:13 No.39764 Report

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>>39762
>I don't know, want to go check it out?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:21:52 No.39765 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:23:01 No.39769 Report

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:23:09 No.39770 Report

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>>39764
>Give us a call if you need any extra spikes!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:25:05 No.39772 Report

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OP I hope you realize that if for any reason the vinyl should rip, that you will very suddenly be immersed in conductive seawater and electronic appliances. People kill themselves that way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:27:21 No.39775 Report

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Would it be possible to cheat the usual need for loads a weight by anchoring this thing with stakes before you fill it up with air? What tools would be required to drive stakes into seafloor rock surfaces?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:28:00 No.39778 Report

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A-are we late to the party?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 11:36:39 No.39789 Report

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>>39775

Great, so now apart from the possibility that the bubble material tears, you have to worry about one of the stakes coming loose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 12:42:28 No.39839 Report

Quoted By: >>41664

OP just wants a place to lay dolphins where he can't be seen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 12:51:35 No.39848 Report

Quoted By: >>40035 >>43110

>>39778
>>39764
>>39762
None of these could possibly provide enough force to pop such a thing, nor would they try.

The rays, if they really wanted to, could, and might if they detect all the electricity coming from it and feel threatened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 12:54:23 No.39853 Report

Quoted By: >>41716

Would that thing not eventually run out of oxygen, causing inhabitants to start breathing CO2?
Or would the water provide oxygen somehow, I dont understand.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 13:52:38 No.39938 Report

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>>39712

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 14:48:24 No.40024 Report

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Don't mind me, just passing through.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 14:51:58 No.40035 Report

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>>39848
>implying the sawfish don't also have ampullae of lorenzini in their rostrums

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 14:57:51 No.40054 Report

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>>40035
Correct, but they would never swim up to and start slashing at a bubble like that. Strictly bottom feeders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:01:28 No.40067 Report

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>>40054
your could say the same for the stingrays

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:01:33 No.40068 Report

Quoted By: >>40120 >>41595 >>43939

Scubafag here, that's full fucking retarded.
>what is water pressure?
>what is Boyle's Law?
>what are nitrogen and oxygen narcosis?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:09:42 No.40084 Report

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>>40067
My point was that they actively use their barbs when threatened, as opposed to sawfish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:15:04 No.40099 Report

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>>40084
yes and mine was since the stingrays usually also stay at the bottom, their barbs also wouldn't reach the bubble any more so than a sawfish would

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:19:07 No.40108 Report

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>>40099
So we agree the bubble is safe.
Excellent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:19:27 No.40109 Report

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what company makes this
the youtube comment talks about a private pool version

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:23:08 No.40120 Report

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>>40108
See >>40068

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:25:36 No.40126 Report

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Would be funny if OP died while doing it. Saves having one more idiot on the planet

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:30:09 No.40132 Report

Quoted By: >>40161 >>41595

>>39712
At first I thought you were serious, and then I read this:
>I was thinking a long ass extension cord ending in a power strip for stuff like space heaters and a hairdryer

11/10.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 15:48:09 No.40161 Report

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>>40132
How did I miss that?

OP Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:14:58 No.41595 Report

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>>40068

The place I'd do it it at the end of a dock in about 22 feet of water. There are no issues at that depth. It is too shallow to get nitrogen narcosis or the bends.

>>40132
As long as I bring that shit down in dry cases and no power is sent to the extension cord until the other end is dry and up inside the bubble what's the problem? Also I'd be doing this in a fresh waterlake, it would be far less conductive.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:31:11 No.41643 Report

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>>41595
Do what you like, OP. Just make sure to post pictures here before you die (because regardless of anything else, I think it'd look pretty cool), and don't do it in a place where you could electrocute some innocent kid taking a dip.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:38:37 No.41664 Report

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>>39839

If we're honest, isn't that what we all want?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:51:50 No.41691 Report

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You know how easily you could die of asphyxiation or sickness from pressure of gases rising from the water?

Pretty fucking easily.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:54:20 No.41700 Report

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>>>slightly bump into side of bubble
>>air gets sucked from the side
>offsets the entire thing and it starts spinning uncontrollably
>breaks your neck
>drown in disoriented state in 15 foot deep water like a king aspie

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:57:11 No.41711 Report

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>>39760

Be funny if a huge sinkhole opened up and swallowed the people sitting in those chairs, and they got sucked underneath in a huge pressurized wake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Mar 2013 23:59:30 No.41716 Report

Quoted By: >>41718 >>41725 >>41774

>>39853

It'd run out of Oxygen in about 3 minutes, and you'd go unconscious and die from the CO2.

Unless you had a state of the art Oxygen pumping / C02 filtration system, but then if that's the case, why not just build a real structure under the water, instead of a bubble.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:00:09 No.41718 Report

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>>41716
Because it's cool.

OP Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:01:30 No.41725 Report

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>>41716

I said continuous supply of fresh air in the first post. All it needs is the floating portion of a hookah rig. Same principle as a diving bell.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:01:49 No.41727 Report

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I have a feeling that if this thing ever gets produced on a big scale it´s users will become top contestants for the Darwin Awards

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:17:12 No.41774 Report

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>>41716
Couldn't you just split water into hidrogen and oxygen?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:19:35 No.41780 Report

Quoted By: >>41783 >>41789

>smoke a joint in one of those

What would be the effects?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:20:28 No.41783 Report

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>>41780
Suffocation

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:22:58 No.41789 Report

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>>41780
the same as smoking a joint in a tent
except that you´d probably fall unconcious after 3 and die after 5 minutes

hotbox is fun tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:23:18 No.41792 Report

Quoted By: >>41890

Must have been hard work to blow air into that thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:23:50 No.41794 Report

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>>41774

first of all people don't just breathe oxygen, there's other gases in air that have to be recirculated and for that you would need to be a rebreather type setup. Already you're looking at thousands of dollars for that and it needs loads of electricity to produce enough oxygen continuously for a person.

>>41725 has it right. For hookah diving they make these little buoys which contain a compact air compressor powered by a gas engine. Think of it as a motorized snorkel. It would push down fresh air faster than the OP could foul it with co2.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:25:21 No.41798 Report

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>>41783
How long would it take?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 00:51:40 No.41890 Report

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>>41792

They used scuba tanks.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 03:00:01 No.42352 Report

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What are the odds of someone seeing something that cool on the bottom of a lake and thinking "I've got to swim down there and slash it open"? people aren't just randomly dicks.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 03:21:41 No.42419 Report

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>we bioshock now

So how are you getting air down there? Some kind of pump?

OP Sat 23 Mar 2013 03:25:58 No.42434 Report

Quoted By: >>43125

>>42419

I was thinking an air compressor powered by a generator floating in a small boat but someone else mentioned hookah rig buoys and those look to be the same thing in a smaller package which do the same thing and possibly for lower price

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 06:59:13 No.43094 Report

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>>39770
hey guys, remember me?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 07:09:16 No.43110 Report

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>>39848
Stop being so /out/ismal

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 07:17:15 No.43125 Report

Quoted By: >>43130

>>42434
OP your idea is dumb. I was early poster and I'm VERY surprise that this thread was alive.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 07:21:39 No.43130 Report

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>>43125
it was a cheeky post
nothing serious, just a fun frivilous debate

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2013 17:09:31 No.43939 Report

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>>40068
From what I remember of my Open Water PADI course, even if that's only ~2 metres down, he's going to be fucked after 3 hours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Mar 2013 01:50:03 No.45506 Report

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>>43939

Nope. Navy dive tables say no decompression is ever necessary shallower than 30 feet.

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