Why hasn’t anyone invented a better way to breathe underwater?

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Thinking specifically of scuba diving. It requires a ton of equipment and training and can still be dangerous. In movies there’s always some kind of little gadget that allows people to breathe underwater without all that equipment. Why can’t we build a simple mouth piece with an oxygen canister attached that we could carry around and breathe into when we need?

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What has advanced with scuba in the past 10-20 years are the dive computers.

When I trained very few people had them. You had to do calculations manually and look up tables. You didn’t want to get your numbers wrong.

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