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Underwater Breathing Device Has $820,000 Of Funding Despite Being Scientifically Impossible

by Chinmay Bidkar
March 29, 2016
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Underwater Breathing Device Has $820,000 Of Funding Despite Being Scientifically Impossible
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29 March 2016 : If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Have NASA invented a warp drive? No chance. Was a 1.2-meter-long (4-foot-long) rodent really found in London recently?
Probably not. The latest member of this mad menagerie may be a new device being showcased on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo that claims to allow the user to breathe underwater.
Marketed as the “the future of underwater breathing,” the mouth-based device boasts artificial gills that provide the user with oxygen for up to 45 minutes at a maximum dive depth of 4.6 meters (15 feet). It uses a microporous filter that has tiny holes in it, small enough to stop the water getting in, but large enough to let dissolved, “free-floating” oxygen in.

Powered by a supercharged lithium-ion battery, this stolen oxygen is then compressed and kept in an on-board storage tank, ready for you to breathe. Ta da! Underwater liberation is yours, fellow scuba diver; you can throw your bulky scuba equipment away for good. Except, of course, there are several fundamental scientific problems with this concept.

Firstly, this device isn’t particularly big. In fact, it’s only 29 centimeters (11.5 inches) long. In order to filter out enough oxygen from the water for the user to, you know, not die, a device of this size would have to be getting through 90 liters (24 gallons) of water every single minute, while operating at 100 percent efficiency.

That’s about six garden hoses’ worth of pressure. The only way to do this would be to have the swimmer move at speeds that would make Usain Bolt blush.

So could Triton be electrolyzing the water in this way? Probably not. That would require a heck of a lot of electrical energy – a nuclear reactor’s worth of electrical energy, in fact, in order to produce enough oxygen fast enough. It’s unlikely Triton has a nuclear reactor inside it, and even if it did, attaching one to your face is probably not wise.

So, understandably, many remain skeptical of Triton’s claims, as they have been for at least two years. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, after all.

Curiously, this hasn’t stopped the Indiegogo project already reaching its funding goal of $50,000 dollars. In fact, it’s clocking in at $820,000 right now, showing that at least 2,205 backers aren’t swayed by some seriously dodgy science.

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Curious, Keen Observant & Dynamic! Chinmay finds peace in meeting people who work hard for humanity. He has new found interest in Gadgets and Techs and at Techstory he gets to write about it! Reach out at- [email protected]

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