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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?
Problem is, CO2 is heavier than O2, so you would suffocate.
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).
What’s the lowest a human could dive before suffocating because of the lack of muscular strength to inhale?
Quite pathetic, actually. Only maybe 3 to 4 meters.
Human lungs are not designed to resist outside pressure like that.
I was honestly not aware of how much support air tanks provide, as I have been 30m deep.
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.