Hookah Diving
How does hookah diving work ?
I have 2 questions about hookah diving, please explain to me.
1. I've heard that hookah diving system runs by gasoline, how does it produce the air for you to breathe?
2. Do you actually tie the air hose around your body or waist ?
I am a scuba instructor for http://www.visibilityunlimited.com and though I have never tried the hookah systems I have read up on them and have talked to people who have used them. Hookah diving, also called Surface Air Supply (SAS) was the precursor to Scuba which stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Instead of taking cylinders (scuba tanks) down with you, the air in a hookah system come from the surface. The air is pumped down to the diver via a gas or electrically driven air compressor. The air supply may also from pressurized air cylinders as well but the cylinders are not on the diver.
Hookah systems for divers tends to be limiting to the amount area that a diver can explore because they basically have only so much air supply hose between them and their air supply.
Scuba on the other hand allows the diver more freedom because they have their air supply in pressurized cylinders on their backs.
As far as tying the air line around the body or waist? I am 95% positive that they do not do that. They may have safety lines (not air supply lines) attached to their bodies but there is always a chance for the lines to get fouled up.
Hookah diving is still used today in the form of snuba and in commercial diving where the helmets are used. I think they still make the brownie third lung which is a gas powered compressor that floated in the water at the surface (scares the heck outta me) but Haven't seen or heard of them in quite awhile.
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