A Navy diver submerged 2,000 feet, setting a record using the new Atmospheric Diving System (ADS) suit, off the coast of La Jolla, Calif., Aug. 1.
The ADS suit was designed and acquired by the Navy to support submarine rescue. "Its specific purpose is to be part of the advance assessment system during a submarine rescue operation," said Lehnhardt. "The diver in the suit will see what the damage to the sub is and find out where the survivors might be."
"The suit worked incredibly," said Jackson. "It did everything it was intended to do. I always heard that around 1,300 feet, the joints of the Hardsuit 2000 would work even better, and it worked exactly the way they said it would. [...] At 2,000 feet, I had topside turn off all the lights, and it was like a star show. The phosphorescence that was naturally in the water and in most of the sea life down there started to glow," Jackson said. "When I started to travel back up, all the lights looked like a shower of stars going down as I was coming up. It was the best ride in the world."
Wow, a pair of those divesuit shoes would be the ultimate club-wear item. They make NewRocks look like ballet slippers.
Re your tags, I'm not sure there's a lot in common between suits designed for 1 atm/near zero atm vs 1atm/62 atm.
They don't have *nothing* in common, sure, but they also don't have hugely much in common. There's nowhere to sink heat to in a space suit. In a diving suit, the world's largest heatsink is all around you. In a diving suit, you've got to keep the outside world outisde, in a space suit, you're more worried about keeping the inside world inside. Implosion, explosion, too.
In fact, I wonder if NASA actually uses the same design of suit in the neutral boyancy lab as they do in space. (They may well, in case of a water landing.)
Dude, you're not getting it. Space men wear space suits, no matter if they're aquatic space men, or celestial space men.
Duh.
And the winner for biggest obsessive weenie-ism post of the year is....
/me grins.
Huge brass balls.
He took a duck in the face at two hundred and fifty knots.
This really makes me want to pee.
I hate it when I'm 2000 feet under water and I have to pee. I should skip the latte next time.
As far as US astronauts on spacewalks, they basically wear Depends. Sorry, it's called the "Maximum Absorption Garment (MAG)" and it probably costs 1000 times more than an adult diaper. But basically, they piss their pants.
It's an old tradition. Well, old for such a young profession.
That's frickin awesome and all but, how useful is the dude going to be in that suit at 2000 feet? I mean he doesn't even have hands in that thing. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to use a robot?
I think the real competitor here is saturation diving.
This is for submarine rescue and other commercial applications. Robots can't weld or torch - they have no leverage like a weighted diver does. Saturation divers can't be deployed quickly. Besides, it would be cool-as-fuck to dive in one of these. We don't need astronauts either but everyone wants to be one.
I would chuck myself into one of these new 1-ATM suits in an instant and drop myself off the nearest continental shelf.
*You* guys call it patriotism.
Ease up there pseudo-seppo, I reckon you didn't mean us Irish. It must been ages since anyone heard a mob chant "Éire über alles."
Since you live in Chicago, I can see how it's obvious that you're Irish.
I magically ease up when you re-read my first comment and correctly spot the tongue in my cheek.
It's the latest incarnation of the Newt Suit, designed by Dr. Phil Nuytten of Vancovuer, BC. His company, Nuytco Research, makes all sorts of wonderful and strange looking underwater craft. The US Navy calls it an ADS since they love acronyms, and don't want to admit they have to buy things from Canada.
ttyl
Why must Canadiens constantly justify themselves?
Because Americans constantly strut around wearing their superpower spurs on the polished wooden floors of the world, leaving their marks, intentionally and unintentionally.
ttyl
You are all just proving my point. Who cares what the yanks do? Can't you just be satisfied being Canadien and dispense with the comparison? The whole world is vexed with America's brashness. But unlike the rest of us Canadiens bother to compare themselves to that lot of uncivilised muppets. Entertaining such a comparison demeans Canada.
If you can't decipher it on your own, the truth is I really enjoy Canada - especially Montreal.
2,000 feet? That's absolutely amazing. I don't think that the average person can phathom how deep that is.
phathom how deep that is
333.33?
5.633 more to go
0.6579 Leagues under the sea doesn't have the same ring
Words can't express the extent to which I would not do that.
In summary: "My God; it's full of stars!"