This new diamond mining technology completely eliminates the need for divers. This new technology can be operated from the boat, and allows mining to take place during hours when normal diving operations are suspended.

By utilizing this technology, mining companies can avoid many of the problems as well as the overhead costs associated with using divers in this dangerous industry. Currently production time is entirely dependent on divers' requirements. Utilization of this suction head can generate greater tonnage than divers and extraction operations can continue throughout the night. Assuming safe conditions, this technology can mine in one 24 hour period what one skilled diver can mine in a month! Further, with this device you can operate in harsher conditions, effectively increasing the days spent mining per year from approximately 100 to 300 or more. Imagine increasing your output by 30 times or more without investing in new mining ships and while reducing employee related costs.

Divers incur more costs than just their relatively large salaries, they also need to be trained and insured; their equipment is expensive, and requires costly maintenance, and the costs and time involved with decompression processes are substantial. Further, divers are more likely to pilfer diamonds than supervised, shore-based employees. On top of all this, divers can only mine during flat sea conditions during the day when visibility is good, and then only for a few hours at a time. This device can operate in rough conditions, day and night, is not as vulnerable to underwater hazards or hypothermia, and can be placed in such hostile environments as under waterfalls and in strong currents, where divers cannot access.