Topic: Scuba dive bell – $500 (Arlington heights) ?????

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March 21, 2015 at 6:29 pm #982
outboardnut
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http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/boa/4942555794.html
March 21, 2015 at 6:44 pm #12469
Steve A W
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Not for Me!

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I live in Northwest Indiana
March 21, 2015 at 6:54 pm #12471
Buccaneer
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This would be great for treasure hunting outboards in Lake Superior……
let me know how it works!

Prepare to be boarded!
March 21, 2015 at 11:29 pm #12492
david-bartlett
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Can you spell "Bad Idea"?
March 22, 2015 at 4:04 pm #12533
1-old-outboard
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Sponsored by Patron Tequila!

The multitude of buckets filled with concrete are very confidence inspiring!!

And, only $500! Such a deal!
March 22, 2015 at 4:10 pm #12535
Mumbles
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Made out of an old washing machine?

It better be prime tequila and lots of it if they think I’d go down 75′ in that thing. It would probably crush at four feet.
March 23, 2015 at 2:30 am #12587
kevinrude
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That dive bell seems to have properties similar to an anchor. Anyone can make a DIVE bell, the real value comes in its ability to RESURFACE!!
March 23, 2015 at 10:17 am #12599
brook-n
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Looks like a one way ticket to me.

Brook N.
March 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm #12615
garry-in-michigan
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DEFINITELY a one way ticket. You would eventually use up all the oxygen in the bell unless there was a vent to bleed off some of the air to get rid of the CO2. Staying down too long would deplete your air supply causing you to stay down forever …

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March 24, 2015 at 2:07 am #12658
melugin
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Some local fellows made one to salvage some whiskey from a sunken packet boat after the war. They hand pumped air to a hard hat type device. It worked pretty well until the diver bent over and lost his bubble. He had some trouble surfacing with the lead weights, but did. The whiskey was found to have been in damaged barrels, not intact jugs.
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