Subnado Underwater Scooter Black and Red Special Version

The product is fantastic and user-friendly, featuring three speed settings. However, I wish it offered a bit more speed. The charger lasts for about 15 minutes, which is adequate.

This product is completely unusable in the UK. The listing claims it can be transported by plane, but that is not true – no European airline accepts underwater scooters in either cabin or checked baggage. This makes the product impossible to travel with, and therefore useless for its intended purpose.

Buyers need to be aware there are two connecting ports to this item: one for charging and one for controlling. Both you remove and plug back in regularly. Both have issues regarding being reliably watertight. My experience was that water got into both, randomly. (And that was having read and carefully followed all instructions.) There is a design floor. The item is unreliable. Other users have had similar experiences. (Although there are also many good reviews.) If the unit breaks, it will be hard or impossible to prove it is a design floor and not users’ improper use. This was my real concern. Therefore before the inevitable happened and it broke, I called the manufacturer Waydoo several times to express the issue about finding drops of water inside either or both ports after each use, and to ask them what can be done to make it reliably seal. They never picked up. I then filled in their online contact form and expressed the same. I got an automated reply saying they would respond as soon as possible. They never replied- or at least as of five weeks later they still haven’t. Once broken, I don’t suppose you can prove the leaking into the terminals is a design floor rather than something you have done. That is the main issue. That and poor (or rather zero) customer service. I returned the item to Amazon in the return window before I was faced with this problem. If Waydoo sorted out this design floor so the two terminals are reliably watertight. And if they had reliable after-sales customer service. I would own one of their products. Until then I shall pass on this company.

These can be taken on a plane if your Sea Scooter is Compliant both EasyJet and Jet2 have the Same Restrictions I am not rating the Sunado until I’ve actually used it in June / Egypt.

A great product, loads of power but they need a 'proper underwater plug!' and it will get 5 stars!

Galet stark för att vara så liten orkar dra mig med full dykutrustning på utan några större bekymmer . Jag är väldigt imponerad Batteriet verkar hålla okej men jag har bara kört den i nån halvtimme då det va väldigt kallt i vattnet . Bra att veta är att den kräver en bra batteriladdare /snabb laddare för telefon fungerar fint men vanlig laddare orkade inte fylla batteriet för mig . Rekommenderas starkt

My initial impressions of the Subnado was that it's solidly built and is made of great-quality material. Taking it out of the box, it had a good heft to it and definitely gave a "tech unboxing" vibe over an "outdoor accessory/toy" feeling. Which is a good thing (to me). Bare-bones assembly was pretty straight-forward, as I didn't have any interest in messing with the (many) accessories this comes with just yet. Just snap on the handle and link up the controller connector (wire running out of the handles) to the contacts on the Subnado. There's some greasing that needs to be done, but I'll get into that later. I was pleasantly surprised at the softness and ergonomics of the handle. It felt good to hold and the grip was comfortable. The trigger placement is great too - the trigger itself is just a tad small, but that may be because this is advertised for use by children as well. I briefly switched it on just to make sure it was in working order, and all looked good, so I set it up to charge. Near the back of the Subnado body is a safety label - it has a few good reminders, which I always welcome on consumer-grade tech… especially expensive and potentially risky (self-injury) tech like this Subnado. Warnings/pictorials include a reminder to ensure to turn off the device before servicing (charging) it, the meaning behind a couple of the non-typical battery indicator patterns, and general safety stuff (e.g. not letting long hair get near the propellers). I originally thought this label was meant to come off before use, but it seems it is meant to stay on. A small thing, but worth noting. As mentioned earlier, there's a good amount of accessories included with this, though to be honest, I haven't felt a strong desire to get into them yet. Some nice ones worth noting include the wrist-mount with hand grip (if you wanted to one-arm it and do a 'superman' across the pool), optional tether, and mounting adapter for attaching this to a pool float. So on grease, I felt it necessary to briefly go over its importance: do NOT skip this step or skimp on the application. There's plenty provided to get a good coat on the necessary areas. Coming from an industry that necessitates some level of gasket or O-ring greasing to help with maintaining a proper seal, I cannot stress the importance of it here. To an extent, the grease helps to cover any tiny openings or voids that could allow water in within the gasket or O-rings, but its main reason is to ensure those things do not get sheared out of position during tightening or mounting. Think of how a rubber band would rub between your hands, bare, vs. being coated in a semi-slippery grease. In one, it'll twist in on itself multiple times, and on the other, it'll almost want to stay completely neutral. In short: use the grease; get good seals. There's only two areas (the port cover for the USB-C port and the controller connector interface), so it doesn't take long to do. With this device costing what it does, the last thing you want is water ingress damaging or ruining it. No manufacturer will cover user-inflicted damage, whether due to an accident or simply neglect. On that note, it would have been helpful for Waydoo to provide more grease. The tube provided is a bit small, and would have been ideal if it was larger (think of a Neosporin tube). Because best practice would be to replace the grease on frequent-access areas (like the charge port cover) every time it is removed, at minimum. Still, the tube is at least good for long-term storage, and preferable to those tearable 'grease packets' that I've seen some other brands provide. Now, on usage: I started off using the Subnado in a relatively small swimming pool, and this thing has more than enough power to zip me across quickly. Probably not a great representation of what it can do "full send," but it's the experience I've had with it by this point (~a week in). It's a lot of fun, has a good kick, and so far, pretty good battery life. I've put it through two rounds of use (probably 15-20min each, but closer to maybe 8-10min of actual, continuous runtime) and it's down to 7 of 8 cells on the battery indicator. If it's like any other type of device with a battery indicator, I take this to just mean that it is working on depleting the current cell. So to recap - the build quality is there, a healthy number of accessories are included, and the functionality is great (so far). Time will tell on the long-term durability. The price is a tad steep at the $500 MSRP, but if you can get it on sale for $400 or so, it will sting a little less.

I ordered 2 of these. My wife and I had a blast with them snorkeling in Mexico. We won't be using them again until September, so I am hoping there won't be any issues on our next trip to Mexico.

Je mets une étoile car j’étais très content au debut mais après quelques mois , 6, avec une utilisation très épisodique l as batterie ne tient absolument pas la charge , autonomie divisée par 4

ダイビングに使用したいと思って買いましたが、とりあえずSUPに取り付けてみたら 快適快適 きっかり６０分程度で充電切れ 次回はダイビングに持っていきます たのしみ