BONUS VIDEO: SMACO Small Scuba Set Up Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2022
- Hello Friends,
In this special Bonus Episode I show you the SMACO S700 2L Scuba Tank Portable Mini Scuba Diving Tank.
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This is a great piece of gear to have onboard if only for the purpose of diving on your anchor to check it our to free it if it gets fouled underwater.
They also have a small compressor you can buy if you dont have scuba tanks to fill it from as I do.
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Thank you so much for letting me try it! Soo cool, like Bond, James Bond.
Being a diver( I think ) is a huge advantage with your lifestyle my friend. This could make the difference between being able to make underwater repairs to the boat or getting jammed up .😊
Looks like it could be a useful bit of kit to have on board. Hope your feeling better, safe travels!
Yea man I was curious about these for short jaunts down, the review stuff is actually cool to see.
Take care dude!
Good to hear Kimberly in the background glad you got some company on the boat brother. Found a Wellcraft Starwind 27 close to my house even got a cheap price at the old marina it's at . Has few issues needs a little love but it's in the right place price is good been wishing you could look at it with me . I think you'd give me the go ahead lol .
Awesome. Thanks for showing us the works!
Love your content. Great vid as well. Thanks
Great video brother, May God bless you and your love ones. Stay safe out there.
I need a redundant air supply. This might come in handy. I usually dive by myself. But I cannot take risks underwater, as I have a family to support.
Good demo , more swimming in the sea ... Cheers
Thanks for the video. How do you store your dive equipment on your boat?
Thank for the future ..
They probably don't supply the fitting to fill from a scuba tank, because small high preasure compressors already support the Foster quick-connect fitting. You can get a compressor for $200-$1000 depending on features and how fast you want to fill up the tank. The one I got was a little over $200 and runs off 120v or 12v. Also, a lot of the different brands of tanks like that often come with that scuba fitting.
Sand bag makes a great rapid decent/disposable bit of weight
That rocks can simplify a lot of jobs that comes with boating. I like simple ! Lol
That's nice 👍
Yes I have a 2l bottle and your right the scuba shops don’t like filling them without vip but you can use your tanks as your did , one thing I noticed using mine is that you need to make sure your filler tank is holding 3000 psi otherwise the most the pony tank gets filled is around 2500 psi , also 30 ft is like operational tops, I never take mine down more than 20-25 ft and your right about the bends but it isn’t the bends you worry about here with this unit it’s air embolism so never ascend faster than your bubbles , first rule out of sea hunt ! Anyway good luck the mini scuba tank provides a lot of fun but do get certified , as your suggest , otherwise you could get in trouble 👿 nice video !
Yeah Ms. Woods.
Cool content...love the little pony.
Be well
Hey 👋 great channel
hi james.. the pony tank should have a rating of optimal usage pressure hence the gauge, red zone just over filled and could POP.
3000mb is Nice count yur breaths more so than time, this is made for skin diving or hunting. Kimberlys laugh says a lot !
That little tank is also great to use when cleaning/scraping the bottom of the boat.
Scuba James!!
Could someone please tell me how to track James on his voyage, I had it but lost it.
4:15. Just want to clarify something I think you know but didn't say.
You say you'll fill it from the scuba tank left over, if you do it will have a lower pressure let's say you end a dive at 50 bar. For a standard 10 litre tank at 50 bar, as the air is shared over 12 Litres when filling the small tank the final pressure will end up at 41.6 bar.
insanely cute pony bottle🤿
I saw they have a kit that comes with a small compressor, could you then refill the tank with the compressor? This could be the perfect gift for anyone that for one reason or another don't have a full setup always with them, this is much easier to load in the car for when you go on vacation with the family
Yeah I haven’t tested their compressor but it seems like an awesome option
Got one of these and could never fill it up from a bigger tank. It leaks air while being refilled and could never put more than 1 bar of air in it.
What sort of dive times can be routinely achieved with this?
Probably about 20 minutes depending on if you sip air or gulp it (meaning based on your underwater breathing habits)
You get to do all the fun stuff, on Hawaii no less.
Hydrovane for free....
Dive tank for free (Sam Holmes sailing) He got one too, for free.
Great video, thanks for the upload. 👍
Nothing is for free, but yes me and and San have built channels that make companies want us to use their gear
Fun stuff? Dude have you seen what James went through to get to Hawaii..I wouldnt want that on my worst day...he's earnt everything he has and the entertainment he provides for us
when are you planing on going to san francisco ca?
I am not going to SF, sailing to South Pacific any day now
@@SailorJames your Chanel is amazing , maybe the best sailing chanel on youtube.
Pretty fast rocket ascent to surface. Hope you don't have a habit of that on your regular scuba dives. A fast ascent like that is more appropriate for freediving, when you only have surface air in your lungs. But putting compressed air in your lungs and ascending that fast is an embolism waiting to happen. Also, the purpose of a VIP (Visual Inspection) is to see if there is any rust inside your tank, cracks, debris, ... All things that are very bad for your and others health. So even if you can get away with not having to inspect it, please still inspect it annually.
RED ..STOP...GREEN GO...I'm sure your all caught up now but just in case..
Those cylinders are only safe to use for 2 years
I used the regulator from my smaco to put together my hookah. I’ll keep the bottle around for?? Emergency prop foul??? Personally I can suck the air out of that thing in 5 minutes easily.
Relax and Sip the air and it will last you 20 minutes
Take a drink every time he says Pony😂
but.... umm.. I would be right drunk if I did that !
Get little bottle forsure air2 s army out
8:00 "Big CO2 tank" it does not sound right.
Also the word "inflate"
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Kimberly is cute james
I must be missing something. You already have scuba gear and it looks like you're going through all the same steps you would to suit up for a regular dive. I can see how it would be useful to someone who doesn't have scuba gear and only wants to dive for a quick inspection or maybe to clear a fouled prop.
This is a simple grab and go set up, takes seconds to put on. I have a small boat so unless I am going on a dive my gear is stowed and would take 45 minutes to get out and set up, not to mention rinsing, and drying all the gear before restowing it.
Pony bottles have been around for years and have been used in rescue work for quite a long time. There are several issues with this setup. First, you are using gear outside normal SCUBA Certification training. You are using a first and second stage that is relatively new on the SCUBA system timeline. Standard SCUBA year has been developed over decades of testing, lawsuits, and improvements. You would be much better off using the first and second stage you trained and use regularly with a pony bottle than a one-off. During an emergency remember your training. In emergency work, pony bottles were used for rapid deployment or confined space. Now with smaller high-capacity tanks available, they have lost much of their appeal. They are still used in confined spaces, but that usually means safety divers. We use to say they give you enough air to get into trouble, but not get out of it. There is something to say about the speed of deployment, but again a pony bottle you are better off using your regulator that you train with. In addition, once you put a wetsuit on and need any weight, you are looking at a BCD. You lose any argument for speed, once you decide to wear a wetsuit. Putting on a wetsuit is the single hardest thing to mitigate when trying to enter the water quickly.
Wear your weights, at least so you don't come to surface so fast. Enjoy your show.
hahahaha tell me why im watching all these different review videos so I can get the pronunciation right in my video and everyone is fumbling over the same thing
I feel your pain
i’m my opinion you are swimming up too fast, you can still get nitrogen bubbles in your blood, that is still compressed air. I have only been scuba diving 40 years, but I don’t take chances?Be safe
I didn’t even swim to 30ft so no I couldn’t get the bends in such shallow water
Seriously be careful with these guys. I ran out of air at 10m after like 5 mins with the 1 liter tank. Injured my lungs coming up following the panic and I'm PADI certified so I should've known the danger.
Same thing happened to me in 12m trying to get my chain out of coral , just like you said, 5 minutes and then no air. I surfaced without injury but it was scary and a wake up call
@@SailorJames spooky dude, I'm glad I wasn't doing any sort of task. That would've done me in surely
Scuba diving presents many dangers and most of them are not obvious.
Yah I have the same concerns over this, rarely are cheats/shortcuts worth it and it's a razors edge. 20 min air time optimal is not much if you get distracted, caught on something, or who knows what. Besides that filling little bottles from big bottles, doesn't seem worth the hassle. Rather just have one bottle onboard and a compressor. Minimalism, own less but very high quality of what you do have.
@@NateSail82 bingo on this one, I bought it as a "toy" but a toy should never put your life in danger.. moral of story, stick to an aluminum 80
Looks like you are struggling to stay down
Yeah I needed a weight belt
Ironic because they always tell you SCUBA is extremely safe
Not sure if you understand what the word ironic means
@@SailorJames Not sure if YOU know what that word means. Btw, I am certified and the classes I took that’s all they say is how safe it is, hence the use of the word ‘ironic’ look it up.
you should ascend slower
I hold an advanced certification from PADI, I descended at the rate my ears clear at
@@SailorJames i said ascend... as a DM i can tell you if you ascended like that with me on the dive I would be googling the closest baro chamber.. go read your books again, remember that you should ascend slower then your smallest bubbles... you can kill yourself ascending like that
@@SailorJames he mentioned ascend. Never surface that fast dude. That compressed gas in your lungs just doubled on your way up. if you wasnt breathing out like that you would have over expanded your lungs. if you were down even longer nitrogen air bubbles in your blood and joints would also double and cause severe pain. Just trying to look out for you dude hope you never ascend this fast ever again for your own health. The only time you ascend this fast is during an emergency ascend never ever normal ascend. Keep safe.
@@OzzySafa But he was 'breathing out like that' as you say. So he obviously knows what hes doing and whats right for him. There is no hard and fast rule for anything in life..you do it based of your own training and experience. Just because Arnold Schwarzenegger could squat 550lbs doesnt mean everyone can do it.....smh. Anyway this channel, I find, is for soothing entertainment, not bickering. Have a good one, take care.
@@GodAboveAll777 don’t come at me with your negative attitude if you read my comment properly in the first place I clearly state that I’m looking out for him. Every comment doesn’t have to be negative you know there is such thing as positive feedback. But I guess some people will always look at the negatives in feedback but that’s okay you’re living for yourself after all. Your comparison to Arnold was so pointless . A better comparison would be just because someone has a driving licence doesn’t mean they can drive safely.
Unless you are a certified Diver, no one should be using these. Think it needs to be restated because this could save someone's life! Safe Scuba diving is not as easy as strapping a bottle to your back and just yeeting it into the water and coming up when the tank is empty.
Dangerous product for untrained and uncertified divers. Scuba shops won’t fill them because the tanks are not certified. You won’t get hardly any bottom time on such a tiny tank.
I was hoping you’d get into diving . Being the salty sea dog you are just like me I failed to inform you that being a diver for 35 years with thousands of hours underwater, I still go through this when going to a dive a dive shop that doesn’t have their stick on the tank. It’s a big joke! I’m a open water diver and have more experience than most instructors. I’ve seen classes for advanced open water and even some specialty certifications that can’t even put their gear together. Most divers I encounter are what I call vacation divers ( diving once a year or once every 2 years ). The more hours you have diving the better diver you become. Safety, constant awareness and respect are the only things that will keep you alive .
I have been diving for many many years and dove a ton in Southern California with my little brother as my dive partner. I dive less these days because I don’t have a partner but still love diving
@@SailorJames tell me about it! I’m 53 and don’t have what it takes to do multiple dives in a day. A 2 tank dive requires a 2 or 3 hour nap afterwards 🤣✌️