HOOKAH REVIEW - AIRBUDDY VS NOMAD 

The "smart" regulator is a terrible idea in my opinion. Not just because of the loud and buffeting air from the compressor, lack of air reserve, fragile hose with wires inside, ... BUT also because the regulator freeflows each time you remove it from your mouth and after 20 seconds the compressor shuts off to protect from potential overheating, leaving you without air. You then need to reset the device (turn off and on again). It can be a pretty stressful situation if that happens at depth and you suddenly can't get any air not knowing what happened. It's briefly mentioned in the user manual, but you have to remember that and react correctly to fix the problem underwater.

I feel the same way. I think I'm going with the airbuddy.

I live in Russia, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, and I made a similar one with my own hands for diving in ocean conditions. the system , but only with a gasoline engine. the result exceeded all expectations , at minimum engine speed, the compressor calmly provides air to two divers at a depth of 10 meters , I did not experience any deeper, one diver dived 17 meters, the amount of air was absolutely enough to breathe without difficulty , it is likely that the device I made will provide diving to a much greater depth than the trial 17 meters.

Quite the opposite, it’s harder to breathe from Nomad, certainly at some depth greater than 5-6 metres.

The hose used by Blu3 Nomad is quite easy to cut or burst, like on this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pOPyXNNn2R0.htmlsi=jeZfkKq53U1TYA2R It didn’t happen to me so far, but there are complaints about it on the Blu3 Nemo Divers group on Facebook.

I've only used Nomad and Airbuddy. I don't trust the Chinese hookahs.

@@trekvista OK, maybe it just needs a shot.😂

Diving depth is very individual in hookah diving as it depends on the diver's breathing rate. Experienced divers typically consume somewhere between 12-18 l/min of air when diving in normal conditions (relaxed dive). But in extreme cases divers can breathe up to 80-90 l/min (for example in panic or fighting with massive current). The depth rating of AirBuddy is calculated at 24 l/min breathing rate. Correct breathing is relaxed, taking in slow and deep breaths. As they teach in OW, "4 seconds to breathe in and 4 seconds to breathe out". In such scenario, you can even achieve greater depths than rated, such as in this video both divers diving at 38 feet and breathing out of one AirBuddy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mSPhTcsH72w.html, i.e. almost twice the rated depth. However, this video was just for testing purposes by our team and we do not support or endorse exceeding the AirBuddy rated depths.

how so and in what way? please enlighten us and where to get this better info.