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

Breathing through tube would become impossible after 4 feet deep, mass me wonder how scuba divers breath then I realize the that the tanks put out a lot of pressure

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

    The tube is drawn to be super long

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

    Breathing becomes impossible beyond that length because there's no time for fresh air to get in. He'd suffocate on his own exhalation before long.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm also very much doubting the scale of some of those deep sea creatures. The problem is most of the footage of them that exists does so without anything for scale. Most of them are quite tiny. The goblin shark might be just about right.

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