this small battery powered device allows you to
dive 30 feet down under water is this the future of diving
this is the all-new nomad by blu3 the nomad is a battery-powered surface supply diving system that
runs on a rechargeable battery this is the first ever unboxing of the nomad by blu3 i'm really
excited so let's get in and have a look at it i already own the nemo by blu3 and the nemo by blu3
is such an amazing piece of diving gear the nemo by blu3 only allows you to go down to 10 feet
and everyone who's tried the nemo by blu3 absolutely loves it but the main complaint
is that they want to go deeper and so the nomad does exactly that inside the box here it's all
in its backpack already this backpack here from the front looks exactly like the nemo
backpack now i do notice one difference right off the bat that this backpack is a little bit thicker
and that's because the nomad is a little bit bigger than the nemo what's really cool about this
backpack is it has straps on the side to hold your fins and on this side it has a gear pocket as well
so you can pack your mask your snorkel your fins you can pack everything in here and you can just
walk right down to the water with this and this is your whole self-contained diving system right
here that allows you to go down to 30 feet 30 feet may sound shallow to very experienced scuba divers
however i find that majority of my dives are at 30 feet or even shallower if i'm going lobstering i
lobster in about 20 feet of water this really covers about 80 of all the diving i would ever
do so everything comes packaged up really nicely you've got your dive flag here and in the dive
flag is a pipe and this pipe is actually the air intake got your instructions here they sent you
a really cool sticker with it and there is the nomad right there so that's the unit right there
the hose is coiled around it it's got a 30 foot hose and the regulator is on the end of the hose
as well and also it comes with this is actually a dry bag and it is a safety float to go along with
the nemo it gives it more visibility and it also gives you something to hang on to in the water
if you did get tired of swimming straight to the good stuff i'm gonna pull the nomad out of the box
and show you now the backpack's got some really nice clips that help hold it in place as you're
transporting it so the nomad's not bouncing around in here now look at how compact that
is right there it's amazing that this does the job of scuba gear including a scuba tank that's
absolutely incredible so you've got the 30 foot hose coiled around the outside there it's got some
really nice integrated bungees right onto the body of the unit which holds the hose in place holds
the regulator in place as well got the harness of course the harness which holds the hose onto your
body is built right onto the hose you just put that harness on and then as you're swimming the
hose is tugging on your back it's not tugging on your mouth so it's super comfortable to use this
that's just like the nemo they've brought some of the best features of the nemo over to the nomad
and they just beefed it up they made it go deeper okay let's set this to the side for right now so
this is your safety float and your dry bag you can go ahead and you can put your phone in there you
can put all your valuables in there wrap it up and it will stay dry it'll inflate and then it'll tow
along with you as you're using the nomad this is your diver safety flag along with the air intake
that goes onto the nomad so there is your safety flag so that part's all ready to go
and to put it onto nomad you got to insert this tube here now what's really cool about this here
boaters are going to see you from really far away with this and especially if you have this
big green float going along with you really high vis so anything we can do to make this safer i
really like so this is really cool also in the back here we have the charger now what's really
cool about these chargers is i've used the charger inside my car running on a tiny little inverter
and i've managed to recharge my battery for the nemo inside the car so hopefully we can do the
same with the nomad that would be really awesome the nomad will run for about 45 minutes to an hour
if you're around 30 feet and if you're diving shallower than that it should last a little bit
longer now i say that this in this box does the job of two scuba tanks because i do believe that
there is a spare battery in here so that gives you a couple hours of diving cut this open this is the
extra battery for the nomad so it is bigger than the battery for the nemo it's got its waterproof
connector here on the bottom it's got four leds you can press that and then the lights tell you
how much life you have left in the battery what's really cool when this battery is hooked up to the
unit you can actually see the lights down in the water so if you were diving you wanted to know
how much battery you have left you could come up press the button and see how much charge you have
left in your battery the nomad has a very cool feature to it when it gets low on battery and
you inhale what it's going to do it's going to pulse in such a way that you know it has a low
battery so when you're breathing and you start to feel it pulsating you know that the battery's low
and it's time for you to make your way back up to the surface safely so the bungees come right
off like that and then it looks like you can encore uncoil as much of the hose as you want
so like if you're only diving in a very shallow spot like 10 feet you could pull off 10 feet of
hose and it looks like you could coil it back up so that you're only using the hose that you need
so on top of the nomad here you have a rubber plug this rubber plug sits in here for storage
but you have to pull this rubber plug out before you start up the unit that rubber plug plugs off
the air hole so you would take the rubber plug out of there and that's where our intake pipe
and our dive flag is going to attach to let's take a look on the back here so this is where
the battery goes in the bottom of nomad here is a closer look at the battery on the nomad so this
latch pulls up like this and the battery comes out of here you can see the battery connector there
is real easy to take on and off you just push the little thumb lever down and it comes up like that
so there it is it's a watertight connection because this sits down in the water we're
gonna go ahead and we're gonna snap the cable into the battery we get a nice beep and we get
some pulsation of air from the nomad which lets us know that it's on it's okay and it's ready to run
now one really important thing before you plug the battery in you do need to take that little
rubber plug out so that the air can go through and get into the motor now let's take a look at the
other end of the hose this is what they call the smart rag so in diving you have a regulator the
regulator goes in your mouth and delivers air into your mouth this is called the smart reg because
it's actually communicated to the nomad and it tells the nomad when to run so if you inhale on
the smart rag it tells the nomad to pump air down to you and when you're not inhaling the nomad just
stops so it's not wasting battery and that's how the system is able to be so efficient and last
so long when you're diving down in the water the smart rag has a little switch here so
we're going to turn the switch on i'm going to put it in and i'm going to start breathing
very nice it breathes really easy the nomad pumps the air down to me really nice on top of the nomad
it comes with a couple of ball bungees this is to help you coil up any excess hose you have
in there as well as attach the safety float here is the dive flag got a coupling so you
take the o-ring side of the pipe and you push it firmly inside of nomad and look at that there dive
flag is all ready to go sticks up really high now this whole unit right here is very buoyant floats
in the water all on its own so that's how we're going to use it we're going to float it in the
water and then what you can do if you're out in the ocean you want extra visibility is you can
inflate this dry bag and you can use the bungees and attach it right here so you've got this high
viz green right in front of the nomad and every boat in town will hopefully see you
the nomad is your air delivery system while diving so you're going to need a few other things to get
in the water you're gonna need a dive mask of course like this this is one of my favorites
right here you're gonna need some flippers as well these are just some little ones that i use
in the pool you're going to need to use a properly weighted weight belt so a properly weighted weight
belt will keep you neutrally buoyant in the water when you inhale you don't want to be floating up
to the surface and when you exhale you don't want to sink like a rock you want to have just
enough weight that it holds you right in place and also blue recommends that you use a spare
air with the nomad so the spare air is basically like a tiny little miniature scuba bottle and
this will keep you alive underwater for a couple minutes depending on how deep you are if the nomad
ever were to fail if you were to run it out of battery or it were to stop working for whatever
reason you would just pull your spare air out here put it in your mouth and just breathe comfortably
as you make your way safely to the surface so i think the only thing that's really left is to get
my mask on and get in the water i got nomad all ready to go i got the extra hose coiled up there
i've got my spare air attached to the harness i've got my weight belt on i've got my mask and
i've got my fins so i'm going to jump in the pool and do the first ever test on youtube of the nomad
breathes really nice all right here i go
right off the bat i noticed that the nomad feels very easy to breathe
i don't have to pull hard at all to get air into my lungs breathes really nice and the hose toes
pretty good on my back i can barely feel that it's there
just like a traditional scuba regulator the smart reg has a purge button so if you press
the purge button it'll activate nomad to run and it'll pump extra air into your mouthpiece and
that's really good to flush any water that gets in there flushes it right out you can see every
time i inhale it activates the nomad to run on its own if you look up here on the underside of nomad
you can press the battery indicator while you're in the water and look at that i've got four lights
that means i've got a full charge battery i'm good to go for a long time i only let out about 15 foot
of hose i coiled up the rest on the nomad and it's real easy to swim along with it doesn't drag
i'm able to achieve a nice trim and buoyancy in the water feels really good just like in scuba
diving when you go down deep you build up pressure on your ears and you need to equalize so as you go
deeper you feel the pressure on your ears you need to lightly pinch your nose and lightly blow into
your ears and that will clear your ears and they will feel better and then you can go deeper if the
regulator ever came out of your mouth for some reason it's real easy to get it back in and get
the air flowing again you can always hit the purge button and that will pump more air down into the
regulator so i just very calmly take the regulator put it back in my mouth and i hit that purge
button to pump it all full air and then i just continue breathing as normally and i'm good to go
another thing i made the mistake of is jumping into the water with the switch shut off on the
regulator i was so excited to get in i jumped in and started swimming down and i couldn't breathe
i just got to turn that switch on the smart rag and the nomad is flowing air again
good to go if for some reason i was to run the battery out and the nomad was to stop completely
what i would do is i would go to my spare air open it up pull it out of the strap put the spare air
in your mouth and just like a regulator it's got a purge button so you can hit the purge button make
sure it's full of air and then go ahead and start breathing naturally the spare air is a little
harder to breathe off of it has more resistance but it will give air to you and it'll keep you
alive with more than enough time to make it back safely to the surface to recover the regulator
it's very similar to scuba diving training you sweep your arm in a large arc to the right
grab that regulator bring it down put it back in your mouth and then you're gonna hit that purge
button to make sure all the water's flushed out and then just continue breathing normally
the body of the nomad is very buoyant on its own and is able to support that dive flag
keep it high in the air show all the boaters in the area that you're down diving
when using the nomad you want to work on your technique just like you would with any other type
of diving you want to be laid out horizontal like this kicking with your legs and your fins your
hands are together you don't need them to swim with a properly weighted weight belt that keeps
you neutrally buoyant and be mindful of where your hose is so it's not getting snagged up on anything
on the surface the nomad performs really well i'm really happy with it it breathes really easy
just like the nemo does and actually it breathes a little bit smoother than the nemo so i kind of
like that it feels really good almost as natural as scuba diving for me the hose toes along great
on your back it doesn't pull on your mouth so that's really nice the smart reg works fantastic
if you take the regulator out of mouth and put it back in you can hit the purge button fill it
back up with air and keep breathing just like you could with scuba diving so it is very safe
so the only thing left to do is to get this out in the salt water and let's check out some reef
i'm at the lagoon here this is one of my favorite places to snorkel in florida now
just to show you how portable the nomad is i put it on my inflatable paddleboard nomad's gonna sit
on it just like this all my extra stuff up here we'll get out in the water and see how it goes
look at the lagoon today look how beautiful the water is it's so nice and i made it all
the way out here on the paddle board alone i got the nomad all right i'm all geared
up i'm ready to jump in the water nomad is all the way out there take a listen
you can hear the nomad out there kind of sounds like a compressor pretty cool because it lets
everyone know that i'm still breathing and i'm still alive and my dive partner also can always
look at that listen for me and know i'm good to go i've got all my extra gear in this bag strapped
off to the board and all my really important stuff is in the dry bag on the nomad already so i'll
always have my very important things with me in case they get separated from the paddle board so
i'm looking 100 i'm gonna jump in the water let's get down there and check out the reef
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i made it back to the boat ramp on the paddle board it was so awesome i'm so happy that i
have a really good diving system that i can use right off my paddleboard this is going to make
my life so easy the nomad worked exactly like it was supposed to it breathed easy i used it for
about an hour and after about an hour the battery started to get low and then i felt the pulsating
every time i breathe in you can feel it pulsate and that's the nomad
letting you know that the battery is getting low and so it's time to make your way
safely back to the surface and that's exactly what i did anyway guys i hope you check out
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