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·
      11 hours 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.

      • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        10 hours 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.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Interesting, although I feel like that is more like diving equipment than snorkeling.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          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.