Niels wrote: > I've completed a prototype for the breath-powered pump, [...] > managed to pump 19 liters a minute, even while out of breath after some > serious exercise. Of course a bath-tub-test is no real-life bailing > condition, but lets say I will manage 15 liters per minute in real life. I don't quite recall the earlier messages about this topic. Do you intend to use it as a backup for another pump or as a "stand-alone-application"? :-) Have you checked how much water is in your cockpit after a self rescue / assisted T-or-other-rescue? And how much time x it will take to pump the most important amount of water (nevermind the last 5 liters) out of the cockpit? Have you been breath-operating your pump for this x amount of time? Sitting in cold water in the bath tub (properly dressed for immersion, of course :-))? As soon as I have an extra million, I'll buy your design. Promised. Cheers, Marian Marian Gunkel, Berlin, Germany www.mariangunkel.de *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Dec 11 2001 - 06:42:49 PST
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