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Now I'm consumed with curiosity where the waste goes.

Here is an image of a hyperbaric toilet:

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There are basically two designs. This one uses a pressure vessel as the toilet bow and the other design has an external sanitary storage pressure vessel with a stainless marine head sitting on larger valves inside. The seat is interlocked to the dump valve to prevent the diver from accidently being sucked out. See: Taylor Diving & Salvage: Emergency Surgery in Saturation

Can an airplane vacuum toilet withstand multiple atmospheres?

Definitely not. We looked into using one as a starting point before developing the toilet in the image above.
 
Here is an image of a hyperbaric toilet:


There are basically two designs. This one uses a pressure vessel as the toilet bow and the other design has an external sanitary storage pressure vessel with a stainless marine head sitting on larger valves inside. The seat is interlocked to the dump valve to prevent the diver from accidently being sucked out. See: Taylor Diving & Salvage: Emergency Surgery in Saturation



Definitely not. We looked into using one as a starting point before developing the toilet in the image above.
I had no expectation that my question would be answered so thoroughly! Presumably a bucket is the lowest tech solution, but that would quickly become extremely unpleasant. Makes sense that you would have to use a pressure vessel as strong as the rest of the structure. Thanks!
 
Here is an image of a hyperbaric toilet:


There are basically two designs. This one uses a pressure vessel as the toilet bow and the other design has an external sanitary storage pressure vessel with a stainless marine head sitting on larger valves inside. The seat is interlocked to the dump valve to prevent the diver from accidently being sucked out. See: Taylor Diving & Salvage: Emergency Surgery in Saturation



Definitely not. We looked into using one as a starting point before developing the toilet in the image above.
Read the linked thread about the surgery, that’s really scary and interesting at the same time.
 
Presumably a bucket is the lowest tech solution, but that would quickly become extremely unpleasant.

A bucket or camping toilet (frame, seat, and plastic bag) is pretty typical in double-lock chambers used in surface-supplied diving. You can send the "product" out in the outer lock since you are pressurizing with air off an LP compressor. Usually they aren't in there long enough on a Sur-D-O2 decompression to require sanitary facilities but a treatment table can be long enough that it is hard to hold it.
 
I am wondering. Shouldn’t it be considered tech diving like wreck or cave diving as opposed to rec? There is no direct access to the surface from everywhere or am I missing something?
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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