Diving's Next Big Thing
Posted By Paul Kotik on 23 October 2005
I am troubled, ill at ease. I’m not even sure I should be writing about this stuff at all. I should hand it off to our estimable Scuba Editor, Sara-Lise Haith, but the story is simply too big. Too big, I say, in the sense that a stunning, epochal turn in the very flow of History is at stake. Too big, also, at eight (8) pages, which will result once again in my enraged Editor sending to me that sandwich bag stuffed with gerbil droppings, his traditional way of reminding me to serialize long articles.
No ! I shall not climb down from this monster, though it means sacrificing my stellar journalistic career at the very moment of its climactic flowering, and planting the seeds of eternal grudge against me.
I must tell you what I have learned, and I must tell it all, now, in it's entirety, though fill eight (8) precious web pages it surely does. This is my moment of truth.
And so:
Alon Bodner has invented a radically new type of dive kit, a technology which his United States patent application blandly discloses is a “ . . self-contained open-circuit breathing apparatus for use within a body of water..”.
Now, if you work that one out it becomes, let's see, uh.....SCOCBAFUWBOW, which is pretty different from SCUBA. Scuba diving involves those big, heavy tanks which rich tourists get helped into by those instructors with the huge muscles developed by schlepping them onto the boat, off the boat, to the compressor, from the compressor....
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