New scuba mask Jeabyun Yeon will allow humans to breathe underwater without aid of oxygen tanktriton mimics the gills on a fish to draw oxygen from water
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I’m not sold on the Triton. My biggest issue with it is that it would just have to filter so much water to provide all the oxygen a human needs for a single breath. The average human need 500mls of air with every breath; going in, the air has a 21% oxygen concentration and a 16% concentration coming out, for a total of ~25mls of oxygen intake with every breath. Scientific literature places the concentration of oxygen at 6mg/L of ocean water so the Triton would have to go through … about 6L of water for each breath (assuming our lungs can scrub almost all the oxygen in the air which they don’t)? I don’t really think it can do that.
That being said, finding a way to take oxygen out of seawater is a great idea. But Yeon needs to make this thing go through a lot of sea water very fast before it’s actually usable for diving
I’m not sold on the Triton. My biggest issue with it is that it would just have to filter so much water to provide all the oxygen a human needs for a single breath. The average human need 500mls of air with every breath; going in, the air has a 21% oxygen concentration and a 16% concentration coming out, for a total of ~25mls of oxygen intake with every breath. Scientific literature places the concentration of oxygen at 6mg/L of ocean water so the Triton would have to go through … about 6L of water for each breath (assuming our lungs can scrub almost all the oxygen in the air which they don’t)? I don’t really think it can do that.
That being said, finding a way to take oxygen out of seawater is a great idea. But Yeon needs to make this thing go through a lot of sea water very fast before it’s actually usable for diving