What an absolute useless POS!! The ergonomics for scanning the floor or viewing beyond over your head are horrible. To look down , you almost need to do a hand stand to see the floor in front of you. This is complicated more by having one of the narrowest fields of view on the market meaning it requires almost direct views due to almost no peripheral range. The buttons can’t be manipulated with fire gloves on so the fancy screens are far more liability than help as you can accidentally turn them on and then not be able to get back out. The refresh rate has the camera freezing more than scanning at moderate temps. The pixel rate and view screen are too small to aid in victim identification as a large number of your victims don’t show as the hottest thing in the room. They are often covered or thermal equalizing so that stark contrast doesn’t exist. You are looking for shapes or areas that require you to physically sweep to verify a victim. Using this device for that is like watching the Super Bowl on your iPhone 5 vs your 55 inch big screen. Finding fire? The low pixel rate and lower contrast to the view screen coupled with the slow refresh rate means the camera whites out (or reds out) very quickly and with little effort, particularly given that its field of view is very narrow and therefore has much less contrasting surface area for the processor to use for temperature differentiation. About the only true value to this camera is as a personal tic to help you locate an exit point should the reserved NFPA tic fail or you become separated. Hopefully there is enough heat differentiation between rooms to show the doorway. Remember, a tic works by a computer generating an image from contrasts between pixels that have absorbed the infrared from the heat emitter. The crisp picture at the day room table is not the picture inside a structure. The less temperature differentiation, the worse the pic. Particularly when the screen you view is incredibly small and you’re trying your see the screen through smoke and the processor is also trying to see through smoke.
It is all of the bad cheese after processing they don't use/want. They send it into large storage tanks and mix it with digesters to break it down. So it's rotten liquid cheese.
Nope it's a sealed rated hazmat setup. If you smell something, it means you're in trouble. The tenders on the surface have to smell it though so better to be the diver!
? The first two minutes is on the diver's helmet camera which is a low light camera for darker water not for high resolution. At 2 minutes it changes to a GoPro which is 1080. The water also is exceptionally blue from a mineral not from being clear.
I noticed the unit I have blacks out entirely and will not turn on when I'm on the knob and I hit it. I dont know of the conversion does it, the thermal layers geting all wonky or what. But every time I get the knock it goes dark and wont' come back on. This is problematic for us as we immediately convert to ventilation and primary search when primary search is where I wanted this to work the most.
The unit turns off and won't turn back on? I haven't had mine do that. Might be a faulty one, I'd contact them about it. I know TICs will have problems with steam clouds due to the water particles in the air and lack of difference in temperatures to detect.
@@crossingtheglobe3122 Yeah we sent it in. Its on its way back via FedEx. Yes, it would literally just power off and it wouldn't come back on until charged again. Rinse repeat. I was testing for the dept so it wasnt a good experience. haha. Hopefully it works when it gets back.
Yeah I like the design of the 300 better. The sensor is on the back so you can hold it normally. Also much bigger buttons! Maybe they watched this. It is pricey though. Hope it works great.
Why would a camera that tells you if something is hot or cold useful to firefighters I mean, if your house is on fire are they really gonna care if the door is hot or not
Hey thanks for commenting, there are actually many uses for thermal imagers to firefighters. In heavy smoke conditions, you can search rooms very quickly and locate people/unconscious victims easily when you only have a foot visibility. You could see a child across the room hiding under something when you never would have found them otherwise. These also allow you to see hidden fires inside walls or attics that could be spreading. If the fire travels through the attic without you knowing it could collapse on you trapping/possibly killing you. We also use them on investigations, electrical issues, and search and rescue.
With the original InReach when you're setting up your InReach account you can pre-define messages that will accompany your SOS. I'd check to see if this can also be done with the Mini. You could say something like, "Scuba diving! Send helico or boat!" Note: We had a Nautilus GPS that leaked, no longer trust.
Our department is going to buy them as well. They work great. Also when you compare the cost to what the pack integrated ones cost they are a no brainier.
As an adventure boater.... I use both this and a few more. Some just in my life raft alone. And a Gumby suit. Your safely gear is going to cost you thousands of dollars and you better have redundancy at least 2x over. I can see the Nautilus as a stand alone for a diver for sure. Awesome review from someone that is obviously very experiences in it's use and as a first responder... gold advice here folks. Thank you for posting:-)
I totally agree that a radio signal, although great, does not guarantee immediate rescue. One needs to use the right device for the right situation. Recently, a MOB kayaker in Washington State made an emergency 911 call using a cell phone and they did not get to him in time. IMO, had he used a marine channel 16 or VTS Channel 14 followed up by an DSC/AIS MOB distress with MMSI# and GPS Coords, a passenger ferry, or other vessel, within one to three miles would likely have been able to get a rescue raft to him in time.
Yeah that's why I ended up getting both. I wanted the best chance I could get for the circumstances. Working in emergency services has really shown me how far away help can be.
No guarantee of that but it makes for a reasonable argument. Most likely in the Puget Sound they would send the SPD Marine Division or Coast guard to the GPS location to investigate the received distress call.
@@SeattleRingHunter Whenever I cross the Puget Sound in a kayak, I am always able to get hold of Seattle Traffic on Marine Channel 14. Many of the WSF's are on there , too.
hey im in dive school right now and i was wondering if its worth it? im barely seeing now that the diving industry has shit pay and no work? can you please tell me your experience?
It's a rough industry not going to lie. The top 5 % of divers can make a lot of money but the rest barely get by. It's feast and famine so paying bills or planning expenses is very difficult. Most divers last about 5 years before going into another career. I actually work full time as a firefighter now after ten years and dive part time when jobs come around.
Well it turned all brass on the helmets black and whatever's in there fused to our hazmat suits so we cannot get the smell out. Pretty weird stuff for sure.
@@crossingtheglobe3122 Brass turning black would indicate it is pretty acidic then. How was the actual smell? More closer to sewage or rotten milk products? Do you have insurance to cover you new suits if the ones used in this got ruined or is the customer responsible in this case? Hope you can post more videos of your gigs in the future. Compared to commercial diving in water - what are the main considerations and safety precautions you need to take when doing something like this? Is there always additional danger or getting yourself stuck in some nasty sludge on the bottom if there is any? Do you have your own company or work through some firm? How do customers find you in this case? Do they just Google for commercial divers in their general area? What are your qualifications as a commercial and also recreational diver? Sorry for such a long list of questions, but your job is simply put, interesting.
@@DontEatFibre Definitely on the acidic side for sure! From a distance it smelled like old macaroni, I never smelled it up close because I was suited up and that would be bad if I could smell anything. For equipment we bid the job including damage/replacing equipment. We did a sulfuric acid dive job where we were throwing away new suits and helmets every 20 minutes! It's all included in the bid. Commercial dive companies also have to maintain very expensive special risk insurance for jobs along with general liability. It's one of the main costs of a bid. For hazmat jobs we test the chemicals against the equipment to make sure nothing will fail. We also have to follow strict decon procedures. There are always multiple redundant air sources and a standby diver suited and ready to go in if an emergency happened. My family has owned a marine construction company for 40 years but I have also dove with several other companies. Many of our clients find us by simply googling commercial dive company or finding us by previous jobs we've done. Commercial divers go through extensive and expensive schooling that can last 6 months to over a year. It's not at all like scuba diving. Commercial divers are surface supplied with an air hose and compressor. Scuba is way too dangerous to use. For the United States, ADCI certifies commercially and there are others for different countries. Canada uses DCBC and they are accepted all over the world. Hope that answers a few of your questions!:)
@@crossingtheglobe3122 Wow a sulphuric acid dive. You don't have any video of that? (I didn't search your channel yet). Hopefully it wasn't that comcentrsted acid :D. Nevertheless, that one sounds like a million things can go horribly wrong. Did you have to wear some special multilayer suit setup, just in case the out most layer experiences a leak? If not acid or this cheese tank, what is the craziest medium or environment you ever dived in then? Definitely one of those jobs that takes you to places people would never imagine someone has to/gets to dive in.
@@DontEatFibre unfortunately I don't have videos of that dive. Sometimes we either aren't thinking about taking video or the client has non disclosure agreements. But it was pretty concentrated and ate through metal ladders pretty quick. Our suits are pretty tough to puncture. There are redundant seals on the wrists and neck. That way if you puncture a glove it won't enter the suit. If you puncture the suit, then it can't get into the helmet. I'd say this cheese was probably the craziest. We have dove in raw sewage before. There is a video on my page of recovering a bunch of turkeys off the bottom of a lake that died after the truck hauling them rolled off a dam. There were over 500 and they were worried it might pollute the city's water supply since the intakes were nearby.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XCErz7A2WrE.html. Here's another video of what we were doing. We were replacing 1500 air diffusers in a rotting cheese tank. This was the decon station.
When I dive for fun I love Scuba! But for working divers I only use a surface supplied hard hat. An unlimited air supply, hard wired coms, and so many redundancies makes it exponentially safer.
Great to see a comparison from a diver perspective. I wish one device could do both, of course. An Inreach with a local beacon would be ideal. But at least there are affordable options available.
Yeah it would be awesome if they made a diver friendly version of the inreach that could transmit to ships around you as well. Or have the nautilus also send a satellite signal. I'm guessing something will come out with both.
Well you could hold a light at your face and not see anything but black. It's so dark, your mind actually starts seeing little flashes and streaks of light that aren't really there because it can't relate to that level of dark.
@@crossingtheglobe3122 Looks freaking super clear! I have always wanted to catch the pike. I am going for Large Mouth Bass, Walleye and Trout Challenget this summer, I want to prove that Utah Lake is making a come back! I am guessing more South of Provo.
@@taylordubray593 yeah in the coming years I think a lot of trophy pike will be coming out of there. Also the white bass should get larger once their numbers drop a bit and the stunted growth stops.
I went to the Canadian Working Divers Institute which I highly recommend if you are looking for the best hands on, real life training out there. You will come out of it as dialed in as you can be fresh from school. No swimming pools or taped helmets to simulate low visibility up there. It is also cheaper than the US if you have the money but there aren't any student loans I know of that go internationally. If that is not a possibility, the only dive school in the US I would recommend is the Divers Institute of Technology in Washington. They have gained a decent reputation in the last decade. But it will be more expensive.
@@harrisonalmeida6327 For CWDI it's 25,000 Canadian dollars which is about 20k US right now. But that changes based on the exchange rate. US schools have student loans you can get but most schools are around 50k and twice that in the long run after paying all of the interest.
