Tomb Raider Dive Toys

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• Jul 25, 2003

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So, i just got back from Tomb Raider. In it, they were riding some k10 HydroSpeeders as pictured here:

Hydrospeeder

Has anyone here ever ridden these things? They don't look terribly practical or even comfortable for that matter. But there is a coolness factor about them that can't be ignored.

steve

 

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• Jul 25, 2003

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Definitely cool....

And they are only $6650!!

(Buy two!)

 

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• Jul 25, 2003

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I just think the thing looks like a bit of a huge accident waiting to happen, myself. If you use it like they do in the pics, then thats your air supply as well. So you basically have to go where it goes or you're not breathing. In that link i posted they say you can do loops - well, what about your ears?

Looks like it was thought about by james bond afficionados, not divers.

steve

 

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• Jul 25, 2003

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I know my next birthday(s) and Christmas present

It looks pretty cool

I wonder how good it steers

 

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• Jul 25, 2003

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SO many possible hazards with this thing. It DOES look fun, though...

 

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• Jul 25, 2003

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...looks kinda cool, but it also looks like he's humping the machine.

 

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• Jul 26, 2003

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another negative aspect is the weight...280LBS (127kg) Fully configured.

You'd need two people to carry it to the entry point

 

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• Jul 26, 2003

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Oh yeah, I can just see it, you ride this down to 80 FSW, bomb around for 10 - 15 min. your dive profile looking like a roller coaster ride. Then just zip up to the surface. OOPS was my ascent rate a little too fast, Oh well theirs a chamber near by, and besides he who dies with the most toys wins,,,right?

I have no doubt that a few "bullet proof" individuals will be bragging about how the did this and that with the DPV. Until that one day that they tickled the dragon once too often and ended up 6 feet under with no shoes.

 

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• Jul 26, 2003

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I just watched a thing on the making of tomb raider...there was nothgin else on for 10 minutes while I was wiating for my show to start.....They showed this thing, but all the footage was of it on a track with them riding it. They must have put the water in durring post production, heh.

 

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• Jul 26, 2003

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WORST movie I have ever seen. Worse than the first one.

Trailers were better though - sucked me in to forking out and watching it.

Scuba sequences are appalling.