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?

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    10 hours ago

    I know its just a comic but when I see these I can’t ignore the reality that a snorkel doesn’t work if you are that deep. You can’t overcome the pressure differential.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      23·
      10 hours ago

      You’d be breathing in and out the same air from the tube anyways, since its volume would be larger than you lungs

        • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          That’s where the water pressure problem kicks in. You only have to be a couple feet down before you can’t expand your chest enough to get a breath through a tube. It’s very surprising.

        • Emi@ani.social
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Never thought of that, you would need to keep the water from entering the snorkel tho. Or just put pressurised air from the surface into the snorkel but then you just end up with old timey diving suit.

          • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You mean because of taking the mouthpiece out of your mouth? Just breathe in through the snorkel and out through your nose. The unbeatable problem is the water pressure on your chest keeping you from inhaling.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      15 hours ago

      This comics remember me of a Darwin awards case i’ve read a while ago. The poor fella did some deep immersion under a lake using only a veeery long tube to breath. You can guess how it ended.

      • M137@lemmy.today
        4·
        2 hours ago

        “This comic made me remember a Darwin awards case I read a while ago”*

        I’m just trying to teach grammar and spelling, not busting your balls over it. It’s clear English isn’t your first language, same as me, just showing the correct (I think) way to write that sentence.
        You did nothing wrong, I just saw an opportunity to show improvement and hope it helps. Continue learning, of course jot only English grammar and spelling but everything in life.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        37·
        15 hours ago

        How? Surely you would find out almost immediately that you can’t inhale against the water pressure and then just surface. It’s not like you are getting to 15m before you struggle, IIRC for most people you will be struggling or completely unable to inhale by just 1m. Even with training you are at best adding a few cm.

      • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        15 hours ago

        but… how? I mean, don’t you feel it before dying that you can’t breath? Or he had too heavy gears to swim back at the surface?

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          14·
          12 hours ago

          " The Missouri State Water Patrol said he used the hose to snorkel 30-feet below the surface, with a 20-pound boat anchor tied to his waist to help him reach the bottom. "

      • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
        12·
        10 hours 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
          5·
          10 hours 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
            1·
            26 minutes 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.

    • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      15 hours ago

      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

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        20·
        15 hours ago

        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

      • Devadander@lemmy.world
        8·
        14 hours ago

        Yes, snorkels exist. But the depth they are usable is limited to only about a meter, before you cannot take in air

          • Badabinski@kbin.earth
            8·
            14 hours ago

            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.

            • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              2·
              12 hours ago

              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

          • Devadander@lemmy.world
            5·
            13 hours ago

            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

    • Tja@programming.dev
      5·
      13 hours ago

      You would stop being able to inhale before that becomes a concern (every 10m of water creating 1 atm of pressure on your body impeding you to expand your lungs).

      • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        What’s the lowest a human could dive before suffocating because of the lack of muscular strength to inhale?

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
          4·
          11 hours ago

          Quite pathetic, actually. Only maybe 3 to 4 meters.

          Human lungs are not designed to resist outside pressure like that.

          • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            11 hours ago

            I was honestly not aware of how much support air tanks provide, as I have been 30m deep.

            • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
              4·
              11 hours ago

              You should try breathing through a long tube sometime. (While being fully aware that you’ll probably need to swim back to the surface in order to breathe!) Even at very shallow depths, it becomes quite difficult. By the time you get to the bottom of an average swimming pool, it becomes completely impossible.