Deep Diving Challenges

Comments discuss the feasibility and dangers of diving to extreme ocean depths, including pressure effects, equipment limitations like watches and phones, implosion risks, and alternatives such as submersibles or freediving, often in the context of accessing a deep underwater leak.

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starkfist May 22, 2010 View on HN

The leak is too deep for divers.

dylan604 Sep 21, 2023 View on HN

What's the pressure like at that depth? That seems like it would have some implications to be dealt with

SECProto Feb 20, 2024 View on HN

Skip the gear and tell them it was your deepest freedive

jacobreg Mar 29, 2021 View on HN

That sounds terrifying for the divers

jspiral Apr 16, 2023 View on HN

that sounds like a description of scuba diving to me, maybe worth a try if you haven’t

kavi87 Sep 23, 2020 View on HN

Work ? Maybe a diver can stay inert or do some small movement at 500 m but picking up rocks maybe not

pokpokpok Oct 18, 2013 View on HN

it's a wet submarine, so there's no pressure differential

btbuildem Jul 13, 2015 View on HN

Tracking might not work when it's ten feet underwater..

nickpp Sep 7, 2022 View on HN

Did anybody catch the maximum depth for diving?

aftbit Mar 3, 2022 View on HN

Seems unlikely to be a problem undersea, no?