New Argonaut Kraken Owners Post

[Nemrod]

Having reminded Luis early on of a "feature" of the design and I will go no further and having had hands on "tutoring" from Luis, I would suggest that reading the link Bryan provided concerning the volcano orifice adjustment and waiting for Luis to provide a little more on the HPR Venturi adjustment would be wise.

The ability to approach animals so close is a huge benefit to dh regs and is not to be understated. There is a learning curve as well to getting best performance. The short video I posted somewhere it is not completely obvious, but I swim through the water at a slight angle, my body rolled ever so slightly. I do not use a flutter kick but instead a scissor and an odd frog kick combination that moves me efficiently and allows my slight body roll, which to me is natural. I frog kick as my body rolls level exhaling and a larger scissor (like a side stroke) as I roll slightly along my axis (either direction) and inhale. As a swimmer I am accustomed to rolling to breath and I time my breaths to coincide. We all have our tricks and that is mine, thus my often saying, I am not much into the very low tanks because I roll my body for inhalation and generally long and slow inhalations and exhalations are very efficient for me. YRMV. And BTW, I use the same swim technique, double or single hose, though it has advantages with dh that are not applicable to sh, the swimming method is efficient and makes good speed when needed and that is always applicable.

James

[Bryan]

Paul's new Argonaut Kraken bound for Australia. Check out his cool job!
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[Bryan]

Paul's new Argonaut Kraken bound for Australia. Check out his cool job!
sharkinabus.com


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[michael123]

Today was the second dive with the Kraken and 20min in water was in trouble.I finished my dive early because of the Kraken loosing air from the exhaust holes.Don't know what went wrong but the only time was not loosing any air was when inhaling.
With the continuing bubbles sound it was like if i was exhaling all the time.
I change to octopus regulator and still the same.So i terminate the dive to be safe.When out of the water i can still hear the air coming out.

Also for a moment at 15-20 minutes in dive i noticed that water somehow found a way to the circuit.

Should i open it and have a look?

Yesterday i gave the Kraken a good clean with water and this morning test it with a tank and was working perfect.So i decided to dive it.90 minute dive and everything was fine.No extra bubbles and well behaved.
I will wait a little and if exhaust bubbles reappear i will sent it to you for a check up.

Wanted to post and clear this situation even if it took me almost a year to do that.After the first time few more dives and the problem reappears and found one of the hoses guilty.Change that with a new one and until today everything is smooth with no issues.

[Sharkinabus]

Last but not least

Argonaut Kraken 007 has arrived in Australia. Thanks Bryan and Luis.

[14020]

Paul,

That's Kraken 15-007 right.

[Bryan]

Alberto in Italy with his just arrived Argonaut Kraken!

Alberto with Argonaut.JPG

[BigMike]

Is he wearing the shirt backwards?
Or should I check where the tag is when I wear mine?

[Bryan]

When in Rome....

[swimjim]

Italy has a ton of history, above and below the waterline. I hope Alberto posts some follow up about diving his Kraken!

[Nemrod]

Just a dive report. Spent nearly three weeks on my annual visit to Florida. Started in WPB with three dives on the BHB and wound up in Key West on Joe's Tug. Maximum depth 150 feet, many dives at or around 100 feet. The unit DD-6 performed flawlessly throughout despite me riding it hard and tossing it in the bag wet. Sorry Kraken, but, my camera gets my love .

I just dropped a $1,500 plus getting my camera housing refurbished, bought a new macro lens, replaced my damaged wide angle port, bought a NIB on eBay spare camera ($$$$$$$$$) and some other stuff, so the point is, the poor Kraken got no love for three weeks of hard diving.

No, the original Kraken yoke will not work on every other tank but I brought along a Phoenix yoke. I have decided I think I like and want hose weights, might block both anti-Venturi ports but I want to emphasize the Kraken kicked tail and turned heads, red hoses and all.

I was at 110 feet on a "shark" dive, another story, but one really big shark decided he wanted to have a look at my camera and as I was discussing my camera with him a very, very, very large Tiger comes up right behind me and has a nudge on the Kraken. I am not kidding. Then he went away and me still intact.



Some one, just an opinion, is going to get hurt on one of these dives one day. I did not see an oceanic (number one man eater and will definitely attack and eat scuba divers) but a tiger (known scuba diver eater) is a bad, bad boy, alls I can say. And no, my original booking was to go to Shark Canyon where there are occasional pelagic sharks but mostly big turtles which are what I like and wanted to see. Next thing I know, we are doing a Gulf Stream drift in open blue water with a bait tray sitting at 100 feet and really big sharks charging in up the scent trail like freight trains. But the Kraken ain't skeeered of no stink'n sharks, even if the diver it is attached to kinda sorta is



Nem

[Superlite]

I hope you said hello to the tiger and gave him a big bubble kiss from the Kraken

[Superlite]

I hope you said hello to the tiger and gave him a big bubble kiss from the Kraken

Those orange hoses sure look great. Probably why ole Tiger shark came in to investigate

[swimjim]

I wonder if waving those red hoses in front of a shark is like waving something red in front of a bull??? A new sport is born!
I think the Tiger shark was thinking, "Hey, I haven't seen a bubble machine as cool as this one before!"

[refrat]

" Tiger comes up right behind me and has a nudge on the Kraken." They will do that!
I dove for years in the North of Western Australia which was lousy with Tiger sharks (sharks in general) and I have seen them sneak up behind divers a number of times- used to make me wonder how many times I'd had one behind me and didn't know it.
They are definitely curious and I once watched a Tiger with a head as wide as a kitchen table spend several minutes nudging a white buoy on the surface, something to think about while bobbing there with an inflated BCD waiting for the boat!
Shark feeds- I've participated in a few years ago and got some great shots/video, but now I am inclined to think that anything that alters marine behavior is to be avoided, and by the way people HAVE been hurt on those sort of dives.
Lucky you didn't have the yum-yum yellow hoses on the Kraken huh!