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?

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    19 hours ago

    Breathing through tube would become impossible after 4 feet deep, mass me wonder how scuba divers breath then I realize the that the tanks put out a lot of pressure

    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I’m also very much doubting the scale of some of those deep sea creatures. The problem is most of the footage of them that exists does so without anything for scale. Most of them are quite tiny. The goblin shark might be just about right.

      • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Quite a few of the photos taken are shot around the base of oil rigs, so we do actually have a scale for some of them.

        • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Right, but in the YouTube videos I’ve seen there’s usually no visual reference. Or if there is, there’s no way to tell how big it is either.

      • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        15 hours ago

        Breathing becomes impossible beyond that length because there’s no time for fresh air to get in. He’d suffocate on his own exhalation before long.

        • ammonium@lemmy.world
          5·
          15 hours ago

          If that was the only issue one could just not breath out in the tube. But there’s another problem: Breathing becomes impossible because you can’t breathe due to the pressure of the water on your chest.

          • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            13 hours ago

            Yep. Keep going and you’ll be forced up the tube in a fashion not unlike toothpaste.