Just teasing... that's 10X my depth limit so I'm not going there. But I'd like to! Had a great experience today out on a vessel whose mission is to rescue stranded submariners on the ocean floor (among other things).
Mayor Bob of SCUBA Luv, Jon Council and I were invited out to the vessel a mile or two off Catalina to view (and film) their operation. Two divers were down working at a depth of about 500 feet. We got to watch them work on a series of TV monitors in the control room. Then we watched as they retrieved each diver.
The divers were in suits that reminded me of Dr. Sylvia Earle's JIM suit two (three?) decades ago. They were lowered on cable tethers to the bottom and practiced working on various fittings, etc., as part of their drills.
On one side was a tether that could take a diver to 1,200 feet. On the other side another which had a depth limit of 2,000 feet.
Now this is a form of "dry suit" diving I could really get into. Imagine the critters one could see at these depths! Of course my housing is only rated to 150 feet, but theirs can go the full range.
Mayor Bob of SCUBA Luv, Jon Council and I were invited out to the vessel a mile or two off Catalina to view (and film) their operation. Two divers were down working at a depth of about 500 feet. We got to watch them work on a series of TV monitors in the control room. Then we watched as they retrieved each diver.
The divers were in suits that reminded me of Dr. Sylvia Earle's JIM suit two (three?) decades ago. They were lowered on cable tethers to the bottom and practiced working on various fittings, etc., as part of their drills.
On one side was a tether that could take a diver to 1,200 feet. On the other side another which had a depth limit of 2,000 feet.
Now this is a form of "dry suit" diving I could really get into. Imagine the critters one could see at these depths! Of course my housing is only rated to 150 feet, but theirs can go the full range.
