This is a short inside into the user experience when diving in the Ascend free dive safety wetsuit.
This image showcases the chest inflation bladers, that insures the diver comes to the surface face up and floating on their back.
The Ascend ear pulse oximeter is designed to take accurate blood oxygen percentage reading of freediver at extreme depths t
This image shows the inflation bladder raping around the back of the diver's neck to ensure support for the head of the unconscious diver.
Bachelor of Design with Honours
Growing up with spearfishing and freediving as a common family activity, I heard a lot of stories about divers going missing or having to be rescued. When a friend came very close to blacking out whilst spearfishing, I saw an opportunity to design a product that helped freedivers survive shallow water blackouts. Ascend is a wetsuit containing an inflation bladder that connects to a CO2 module, which is autonomously triggered by a pulse-oximeter located on the divers ear. The wetsuit automatically inflates once it notices the diver's blood oxygen percentage drop below the 65% threshold, in turn bringing the unconscious diver to the surface safely.