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Let me check things out [Beetle Moses] (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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Beetle Moses | Bluesky

TranscriptThree 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?

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[–] 20 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    10m is deep enough to have to consider the bends (decompression sickness). That's definitely into diving rules territory.

    The particular risk is it cutting off, due to the battery dying, forcing a rapid ascent.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    10m presents no real risk of DCS. Lung overexpansion injuries are the bigger concern. You'd have to be down for several hours to be at risk, which isn't feasible without environmental protection and warm water

    Most dive tables don't even go to 10m, because the risk is so remote

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting, although I feel like that is more like diving equipment than snorkeling.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No true snorkeler.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    No, the difference is that snorkeling is something anyone can do, diving requires training. Largely because diving is far more likely to kill you if you do something you may not realise is a bad idea.

    Not a trained diver but stuff like lung overpressure sounds pretty bad and can't be caused snorkeling but could be caused with diving equipment.

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