Beetle Moses | Bluesky

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Three panel comic.

Panel 1: a guy wearing swim trunks and a snorkeling mask walks confidently into the ocean on a public beach surrounded by some scattered onlookers. He is carrying an electric lantern and his snorkeling tube is very tall, extending up and out of the frame.

Panel 2: he continues forward into the water, nearly fully submerged with only the top of his head above water. The snorkel is still too tall to be seen completely in frame. The onlookers watch blankly as he disappears under the surface.

Panel 3: the guy is walking casually at the abyssal floor of the ocean, where no light penetrates. His electric lantern illuminates his immediate vicinity. He is surrounded by a collection of weird deep sea creatures, including a deep sea isopod, vampire squid, chimaera, and barrel eye fish. Can you name all the creatures in frame?

  • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    10m is deep enough to have to consider the bends (decompression sickness). That’s definitely into diving rules territory.

    The particular risk is it cutting off, due to the battery dying, forcing a rapid ascent.

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      10m presents no real risk of DCS. Lung overexpansion injuries are the bigger concern. You’d have to be down for several hours to be at risk, which isn’t feasible without environmental protection and warm water

      Most dive tables don’t even go to 10m, because the risk is so remote

    • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 days ago

      I hope people using this device know about the bends! That company does list a reserve tank that has 10 minutes of air stored, which is the same as rising 1m per minute so they definitely thought of it.