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?

  • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    14 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
      19·
      14 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·
      13 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·
          12 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·
            11 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·
          12 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