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HOW TO - Build your own diving helmet

Xlg Diving Helmet 0
Modern Mechanix 1933 - "First, select a big tin can about 10 inches in diameter and 13 or 14 inches deep. Ask your grocer for a cookie can. Cut a hole in one side about 5 inches square and by means of tin channels soldered around this opening, set in a plate glass window, making it watertight by shifting around it with cotton dipped in thick shellac." - Link.

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Posted by: RobCruickshank on June 22, 2006 at 9:47 AM

Might want to whip up one of these, first, just in case:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/diy_ikea_coffin.html

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Posted by: MadScott on June 22, 2006 at 2:40 PM

How about posting the "Hawaiian Water Sled" that's mentioned on the last page??

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Posted by: MadScott on June 22, 2006 at 2:41 PM

How about posting the "Hawaiian Water Sled" that's mentioned on the last page??

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Posted by: JBowl0101 on June 23, 2006 at 5:42 AM

Would probably work, but they neglected to mention some pretty important things - notably, if you DO flood the helmet and have to swim up, you'd need to exhale continuously. Just like on SCUBA, you are breating compressed air, and if you take a full breath of compressed air at a depth as little as a few feet and hold it, and then ascend, your lungs overexpand and can literally burst.

Scuba gear is pretty cheap these days....

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