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?

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
    15·
    1 day ago

    I had that same physics lesson. Young me was so excited bringing the end of the hose, covered by my hand, to the bottom of the pool. I was almost out of breath when I got down there because swimming down while covering the hose was hard, but I figured it wasn’t a problem because I was about to be able to breathe through it. I was pretty panicked when I quickly jammed the hose end into my mouth and it tried so suck the air out of me harder than I could suck it in.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      I went into the pool with the hose in my mouth, so no problem with pressure. But a couple breaths later it was nothing but carbon dioxide so I didn’t make it too far before surfacing.

      • Murse@slrpnk.net
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Wouldn’t the easy fix there be to just exhale through your nose? Let the CO2 just escape, and use the hose only for inhalation.

        • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Yes, but still. Water is going to want to fill the hose. You’d have to have the hose in your mouth for the entire descent and the deeper you go, the harder that water is going to push to try and get in that hose.

          Like, a quarter-sized leak in a canoe might trickle in but a similar leak in a cruise liner (which is much further under the surface) would be like a geyser.

        • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          Could be. 12-year-old me didn’t think it was important enough to walk on the bottom of the pool to iterate on the idea.

          Let me know how it goes.