As divers don't have enough on their minds as it is... air, depth, no deco limits, partial pressure of oxygen, nitrogen absorption, etc....

Now for some of the recovery and clean up dives that I do this may be a fun toy, however its scope is pretty limited.

Multitude00

I don't know too many dive masters or instructors that would allow people to dive in a commercial group with this thing in their ear.
Saying this is dangerous just isn't a strong enough way to put it. I'm leaning towards phenomenally stupid as a proper description of using this while diving

Holothurian

This is just a bad idea... as a diver i can tell you that while your sense of hearing is reduced you do hear things and that when someone is trying to get your attention telling you a shark is behind you the last thing you want to be doing is listening to the latest single from britney spears...

Fezzik

Meh, I'll wait for the "iOcean"....

Mandatory_Field

@sfokevin: actually, pretty big. there's so many divers around these days, and people have gotten so used to being inundated with multiple sensory inputs all day/night long, I think we'd feel slightly uncomfortable if we were checking out a hammerhead shark with no 'Diver Down' jamming in our ears. I know I would.

jk. atagjbg.

banmojo

How big is the target market for this thing????

sfokevin

I have one of these with the 1Gb player, and I have only one word for anyone interested. Don't!

Sound quality is transistor radio level. The cables for the headphones are troublesome, and everytime you exhale the bubbles go up into the headphones and you can't hear the music.

Might work better with a dive hood to keep the headphones tight to your ears and bubbles out, but a lot of bother.

Oh and the 9V is inside the housing that holds the MP3 player. It powers the amplifier needed to drive the headphones at a reasonable level.

ukmountie

* Actually, I should add that because the ones from H20 Audio are only waterproof down to around 10 feet, you can only really use them for swimming, and drowning in shallow pools and reefs, rather than full blown diving.

frigg

It costs $199?

Strange because the product page has it down from there to $99...

Step666

Interesting, but I'm not sure this is a good idea for a host of reasons for the divers this is most likely to attract.

1roll20s

I like the H20 Audio ones because you can use them with your own iPod, but they are only waterproof down to around 10 feet.

frigg

ok, so I remembered. It was in the voltmeter and is called A23 _and_ has 12V. And it rather looks like a halved AAA. But 9 V is an awful lot of juice to fit into that little thing in the photo...

yogibimbi

I don't see the 9V battery anywhere. Or do they use one of those little cylindrical 9Volts, that look like shortened AAs? Or were those 12 V? Hmmm, have to remember in which gadget I have those. I'm quite sure I have one...

yogibimbi

This reminds me of the Oakley Sunglass/MP3 player Dog the Bounty Hunter was wearing. I always wondered what kind of songs are on a bounty hunting playlist. Well, besides Prussian Blue.

Git Em SteveDave

Hmm... iRiver... diving... Irony? Or planned all along...

hammertime1994

oh yeah - I was the first to comment_

whatever_

uberfu

Yay! Now I can truely take my music anywhere I go - take that Apple!

uberfu