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undoubtedly one of the coolest things
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I've been asked to do recently is to
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review the Zhaoong aquatic jetpack It's
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an incredible thing and a whole lot of
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fun But to review it we thought we'd do
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something different which is why we're
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here in Sanford and Down which is
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Plymouth's finest dive shop And this is
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Vic who runs the place And over here is
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my guinea pig to for today This is my
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mate Will Hello So Will what have we got
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going on today so in front of me I have
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got the opportunity to open up the Ziao
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Ton aquatic Jetpack And as its name
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suggests and the generally great big
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grin on my face I'm rather excited and
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feeling like a child at Christmas So
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without further ado let's get into this
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cuz I'm going to take it for a spin in
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Oh wow Okay that looks pretty awesome So
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what does this go then so that's going
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to go on my back like a jetpack And it's
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jets on either side This is going to be
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incredible Can we go and play at the
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waterfront now please please please
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please I want to play with it in the
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water It's only five minutes away please
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So Sanford and down is about 20 m behind
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me and the waterfront is about 100
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meters in front of me and this is rather
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exciting This aquatic jetpack is not too
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heavy I've got on my back my day sag
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my dry kit as you can see on my left
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shoulder my trusty snorkel
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So see how much trouble and fun
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excitement and adventure we can get into
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I call it nerves bit of trepidation Most
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of it's utter excitement though it's got
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Another busy day in the waterfront car
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park Cracking place for a beer hot
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chocolate or a nice meal
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And again Bloom seafront spectacular as
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Let's have a go at this then Okay Will
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tell us tell us what how you feeling now
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Um I'm kind of excited It's looking an
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absolutely exciting day in Plymouth Uh
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this is the first time to try this
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system out So uh yeah can't wait to give
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it a go Let's see Show us what you got
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So that is a beauty isn't it the aquatic
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jetpack Let's have a go and see if this
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thing works like it should Show us where
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we're going Will We're going straight
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down there and we're going to play about
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in the harbor here Maximum depth about 3
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m Looking forward to this This is going
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to be incredible So quite often with
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these things they're staged or people
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have had rehearsals or or whatever This
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is literally Will's first time with this
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in the water So he's never never used it
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before He's not been in a swimming pool
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at all He's a bit concerned cuz he
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wanted to he wanted to put his fins on
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but I told him he couldn't have his fins
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And big big hand of respect to Will
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because you know this this is a piece of
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kit that has he's never seen before He's
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never had a go with it He's all he's got
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on is his mask and his snorkel and he's
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uh he's in the waterfront harbor here So
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let's uh let's let's see how he gets on
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And uh there he is He's off You can see
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the jetack You can see the jets going
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And something we realized pretty quickly
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is what you need to do is duck dive But
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um there you go He's off his very first
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go You see he he got he got that to work
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And there he is still alive Uh what you
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may not have seen is that a little
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handheld controller with this thing that
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you it's got a trigger on You could you
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press it to go There's a few other
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buttons There's a few different modes
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you can change it round in You can use
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it to go left and right and all sorts of
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things But here you go Here he is The
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man of the moment coming zooming towards
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us and uh and straight underneath me
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there which is which is really really
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cool And there he is up to the surface
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So what I'm going to do now is uh we
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decided we want to get some underwater
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footage So obviously I'm wearing scuba
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gear So I'm going to sit on the bottom
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and wait for the man of the moment to
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come uh to come zooming past And uh and
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here he is Look at him Look at him go
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That is super super impressive So that
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is only whatever it is the second dive
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he's he's ever done or the second or
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third or whatever it is you know That is
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uh that is really impressive stuff And
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because he's absolutely mad for it here
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he comes again Look at him go That's
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incredible stuff But what we do at this
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point is we decide snorkeling's great
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but we really want to see how it is with
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scuba gear Now I'm told that it is going
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to be possible to buy a 2 L cylinder
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with this Uh we haven't got one so we
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kind of jewelry rigged this little uh uh
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cylinder of our own there And you can
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see Will's got a set of regs You can see
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the controller there in his in his left
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hand and he's going to get in and give
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it another go and see how he gets on
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He's if I'm honest he's much happier
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Neither of us are really keen snorkelers
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but diving gear now that's uh that's a
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game changer So once again Will's never
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been underwater with a jetpack in this
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configuration So uh but there off he
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goes and he vanishes into the water He's
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uh he's having a fantastic time Although
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we decide we need to up the ante a
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little bit more So we give him a a
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selfie stick with a with an action
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camera on And once again uh you see he's
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changed his hands there He's got the
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selfie stick in the left hand He's got
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the controller in his right hand And any
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moment now there he goes He is off You
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can see that he's uh he's making some
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decent speed which is really impressive
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Although he still quite fancies having
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fins on I think one of the things that
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we found is uh is when you breathe out
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the uh it sometimes goes into the uh the
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air that comes out of your exhaust valve
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sometimes comes out into the intake of
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the uh of the jetpack which does kind of
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momentarily pause it You can work your
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way through it And you can see that's uh
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that is what Will's doing there Having a
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huge huge amount of fun
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And I had fins on I had scuba gear on
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and I can tell you when he went full
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wackiness I couldn't I couldn't keep up
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with him But uh there he goes Now
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obviously this is this Plymouth So the
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the visibility isn't super fabulous but
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you can see there he's just utterly
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vanished And at this point I lose him We
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were going to go and take it down a bit
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deeper He goes to 6 m Um I can't follow
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him So here we go You're going to have a
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bit of of will cam here Uh you can see
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there he's got the uh the trigger and
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the controller in his left hand You can
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see me behind there trying to get some
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video And uh off he goes And this is
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absolutely Will in his element He's
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going to come past and and buzz me in a
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second Then he's going to uh he's going
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to head off and vanish into the distance
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Um there you go You can see me trying to
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trying to keep it trying to keep in
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touch with him He's also braver than me
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He's got a wet suit on I've got my uh
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I've got my dry suit on But here he goes
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He's uh I think he got down to 6 m uh
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with the uh with the jetpack without any
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problems at all The only issue was that
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he only had that that small cylinder of
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gas So round about now it's starting to
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get tight to breathe So he he decides
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that discretion is the better part of
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valor and uh he's going to uh he's going
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to cease at this point Fortunately he's
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uh he knows where he is So he's he's
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going to come up close to the steps And
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in fact there they are So nice high
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water here in Plymouth so most of the
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Will uh Will loves a camera so he's
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making sure that he's got plenty of uh
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of good good footage of himself Probably
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also wondering where I am Didn't think
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for one moment I'm sure that I couldn't
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keep up with him blasting along on the
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uh on the jetpack there But um yeah so
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that's uh that's the end that's the end
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That is incredible That is amazing That
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is fun Awesome Superb Brilliant All the
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good words to be said
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And there is our Dominic Robinson
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That is brilliant That is great fun
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That is an amazing Kickstarter concept
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idea and it's been brilliant to try that
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in the UK Buzzing Absolutely buzzing
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That was spectacular That was great fun
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Exciting It feels like a jetpack It's on
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your back You've got control over
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yourself and you just fly through the
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water It's exactly what it feels like as
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you could imagine in space Zero gravity
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Superb That was just wonderful Great And
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how fast was it Will that's what we all
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want to know Put it like this It felt
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like you were going through a very
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strong current Think Komodo Palao molded
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style strength of current That's how it
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felt against you if you were holding on
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for dear life It was that was awesome
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And how deep did he take it oh so we
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just well I just went out the other side
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of Rusty Ridge So I got to about six and
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a half seven mters and you can see the
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fish swimming trying to keep up with you
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cuz they couldn't work out what you were
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That was that was great fun Yeah
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Bouncing buzzing everything So you've
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heard how much fun this is You've seen
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it in action A few stats It produces 200
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ntons of thrust which I'm told is far
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more than uh similar things You can go
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down to 20 meters in it if you wish The
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controller you can use in your left or
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or right hand The jacket comes in
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different sizes So whatever your frame
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is you can find one to suit And I think
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you can easily swap the jetpack from one
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to the other And if you want to get hold
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of one of these things and who wouldn't
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you can find them on Kickstarter I'll
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put the links in the uh description but
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I'm going to have to leave the final
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word to Will So will would you do that
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again yeah Yeah definitely It would be
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really nice to do it in proper crystal
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clear waters If you could have that out
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somewhere plow molds Philippines that is
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where you want it You could be chasing
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dolphins You could be chasing anything
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you want to with this equipment It's
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incredible Really good fun Really