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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Might want to whip up one of these, first, just in case:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/diy_ikea_coffin.html
How about posting the “Hawaiian Water Sled” that’s mentioned on the last page??
How about posting the “Hawaiian Water Sled” that’s mentioned on the last page??
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….