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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?
This is an actual product though! I’ve seen them with filters at the top so waves don’t suffocate you.
I hope they have something weighing them down, air in your lungs makes you wanna float
Four thousand metres long snorkels aren’t available on Amazon, that’s for sure. Maybe on the Chinese sites?
Are you thinking of regular length snorkels with a valve? Never heard of longer ones as it’s impossible to inhale against water pressure as you dive, plus it would be difficult to hold onto a very long tube.
Would like to do some snorkeling but the sea around where I live has pretty limited visibility, at best you can make out where your feet are. Got a swimming mask though and have seen some tiny fish before. But it’s also a steeply sloping gravel beach so you almost immediately would be beyond snorkel depth and have to be free diving to get to the bottom
Yeah I’ve seen them on the beach. Not sure if it was this exact model but they say up to 12m for a single diver.
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.
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.
Interesting, although I feel like that is more like diving equipment than snorkeling.
No true snorkeler.
No, the difference is that snorkeling is something anyone can do, diving requires training. Largely because diving is far more likely to kill you if you do something you may not realise is a bad idea.
Not a trained diver but stuff like lung overpressure sounds pretty bad and can’t be caused snorkeling but could be caused with diving equipment.
Yes, snorkels exist. But the depth they are usable is limited to only about a meter, before you cannot take in air
I’m talking about a floating mini compressor, like this one
That device kinda terrifies me. Like, I appreciate that SCUBA gear is so… simple. No electronics, no batteries, just relatively straightforward pneumatic equipment. At least you’re not very deep if the compressor shits the bed.
Same, as a SCUBA diver I would take a snorkel over this and just dive down. I’d probably give it a shot to test out once though
Fascinating, but that’s not a snorkel. More like a modernized version of the old manned bellows on ships supplying air to the diver below
That’s a bit pedantic isn’t it.
“A long snorkel wouldn’t work you’d need a compressor”
provides one with a mini floating compressor
“Yeah but now it’s no longer a snorkel”
Okay
Who are you quoting? There’s no need to make up arguments and insult me. That’s not a snorkel by definition.
I’m quoting this chain of replies? Context is important before you start replying. Just because you didn’t write the first doesnt make it’s context irrelevant.
“Hope he has an air compressor at the top of that snorkle”
“Those exist!”
“Now it’s not a snorkel anymore”
I cut out the part where you misunderstood my reply and had a snarky “yes, snorkels exist” but that’s the gist of it
it’s not that long