All our 12 Volt hookah systems are ready for use, all you have to do is connect them to a 12 Volt battery and put the mouthpiece in your mouth, at best a couple of minutes and your away.
Remember, there are no tanks to refill, no annual hydro of scuba tanks, no annual maintenance of scuba regs and BCDs. Yes, you will need a mask and fins, and the desire to have fun.
These hookahs are normally used for recreational diving, but seriously, you can use them for emergencies and general inspection and cleaning under boats at any time, day or night.
Powering the hookah is a 12 Volt rechargeable battery. You may have 1 or more on your boat already, or a complete electrical system running on 12 Volts. The hookah pump doesn’t care where the 12 Volts comes from, that’s up to you. For recharging you can even use solar or wind, or even by connection to the cigarette lighter in your boat or vehicle.
POWER SNORKEL incorporates its own rechargeable 12 volt battery that makes the unit fully self contained. Utilising its own ‘floatation chamber’ this unit ie perfect for recreational diving without having to refill bulky scuba tanks.
This model is ideal for a single diver down to 10 metres in depth, or 2 divers to 5 metres depth.
The battery can be recharged by any common 12 volt system found on most boats or vehicles pr present at home.
For boat owners, this unit is perfect for boat maintenance. You can plug it into your boats 12 volt system, the unit is always ready to use.
DECK SNORKEL is perfect for boat maintenance, is designed to operate direct from your boats battery or 12 volt system, and is the same size as a small fishing toolbox. Compact in design, its size is ideal for storage in tight spaces. It can be comfortably used to a depth of 5 metres, and with the addition of a second hose kit will easily support 2 divers underwater for hull cleaning.
Extensive tests have proved that for the average boat owner, the easiest way to dramatically cut expensive running costs is simply keeping the boats’ hull and running gear clean! Tests show that a dirty hull and running gear will on average drop the boats performance as much as 40%
Customers have literally saved thousands of dollars on running costs by instantly improving their boats performance and by decreasing their slipping and anti-fouling frequencies.
Remember, its also available in the event of an emergency—its always ready to use at just the flick of a switch.
DOUBLE DECK SNORKEL operates as above, but utilises dual pumps that simultaneously allows 2 divers to a depth of 5 metres, or 1 dive to 10 metres depth. Makes this unit perfect for checking moorings or any underwater task.
Both the DECKSNORKEL’s are designed to be light and portable and are easy to use from your inflatable or tinnie.
DIVER TRAINING, it is not a legal requirement for you to use this equipment, however we would urge any user to undertake training by doing the SSI half day course of underwater training and certification. There are well over 10,000 units in operation here in Australia, so why not come in and discuss your requirements, we can show you the options and how they relate to your needs. We are certified divers of many years experience, your safety performance and enjoyment are paramount to us.
GENERAL INFORMATION the amount of time you can spend underwater at any depth using the above units is totally related to how powerful your battery is. Using any 12V battery this is known as its ‘operating amperage’ (how much beer is in the glass?). The higher the Amperage the longer you can dive. For example lets say you have a 12V battery with 120A/H, if you were diving at say 7metres (22foot) you could hang around there for probably 6hours+. Now you must realise that different people breathe at different rates so it is difficult to give precise figures, eg a woman normally breathes less than a man, try it at home, 2 people breathing at ‘rest’ say for a minute keeping a mental count of how many breaths each takes in the minute, now compare the results. Normally women have a lower rate than men. Now I haven’t taken into account peoples age or physical size, or their level of fitness, as you can see there are a lot of factors that impact your breathing rate.
Suffice to say that if you were diving for say 6 hours (why would you?) and wanted to do a lot more with confidence, why not surface take a break and just change batteries and when your ready go back in.
Remember our recommendation above about diving training, if you plan to go down beyond the depth of your boats hull, it would be wise to head our call, you never know you just might learn something that could save your life or the life of someone else who may get into trouble.
Most customers upon seeing a 12V Hookah, say “Wow—how much and how deep can we go?”.
My first reaction is: Q. What do you want to use it for?
Most people on a boat want something that is safe and friendly for their kids and friends to use and go down a few metres and play about while looking at the fish etc. Or they are looking for a simple way to get under their boat to give it a clean. This is why we ask what are your intentions/needs.
It doesn’t take long for us to ascertain your requirements. We know that the majority of customers are not scuba divers and have no idea about the equipment.
These Hookahs are made in Australia from quality components and represent excellent value for money and will go on and on for years.
The DECK SNORKEL for instance sells for just under half the cost of a scuba diving kit.
The DOUBLE DECK SNORKEL sells for $700 less than the cost of a scuba diving kit, but it’s a setup for two (2) divers.
Don’t forget there are no ongoing costs for tank refills/hydros/annual reg/BCD service for scuba gear.
These units are simple to operate, they are not ‘heavy’, they are not ‘intimidating’ to novices to snorkelling. Its very easy to keep an eye on the kids etc as they play around connected to the unit be it sitting on your boat or the ‘floating’ model that follows the divers where ever they go.
These units are quiet and unobtrusive to your vessels near to you. With fixed hose lengths you know exactly how far and deep you can go, this also means longer and/or multiple dives without actually registering on ‘dive tables’ for any decompression. You can turn the unit on, put your mask and fins on, slip into the water in less than 3 minutes. If you have a spare battery onboard you don’t have to worry about ‘tank refills’ at your closest dive shop, just swap the battery over (2 minutes?).
The units are small enough to be stowed away on your boat without interfering with your normal onboard gear.
COMPARISONS WITH SCUBA
These units are not intended to compete with scuba gear. But for the average person who wants go down a bit and see what is there or clean/inspect their boats hull etc, these units come into their own. They are environmentally friendly, they do not use a oil lubricated pump to work.
Who knows, after using a 12V Hookah, you may enjoy it so much that you now wish to go and learn how to scuba dive, we hope you do, we have, our whole family are divers, most of our friends are divers, it’s a wonderful world beneath the waves, we can show you how.
Did you know that most of the abundant and colourful marine life is in less than 10 metres of water, normally the first 6-7 metres.
