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?
Hope he has an air compressor at the top of that snorkle
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.
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.
Found this article. He survived, so maybe he was just in the DA honorary mention. Or maybe there was another similar case. https://utdailybeacon.com/139825/news/man-improvises-scuba-dive-with-garden-hose/
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?
" 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. "
Yep. Found this out with a garden hose in a pool.
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.
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.
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
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
Yeah I've seen them on the beach. Not sure if it was this exact model but they say up to 12m for a single diver.
Interesting, although I feel like that is more like diving equipment than snorkeling.
Yes, snorkels exist. But the depth they are usable is limited to only about a meter, before you cannot take in air
I'm talking about a floating mini compressor, like this one
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.
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
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
That's a bit pedantic isn't it.
"A long snorkel wouldn't work you'd need a compressor"
provides one with a mini floating compressor
"Yeah but now it's no longer a snorkel"
Okay
it's not that long
I agree with you, but I am surprised that you could tell that he has sleep apnea.