How deep can a human being dive?

[frostie]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

Looks familiar...

[mixedccr]

Originally Posted by Bisquitlips

And what happens if you need to pee or do the #2??? Hmmmmm????

Inquiring minds want to know...!

You guys crack me up....
We use adult diapers, some suits actually do have a pee-valve. And for #2, well we put sod , and fibre and twigs and stuff, kinda like what bears do when they hibernate for winter........nah, just kidding......In water decompression for a dive say to 100m can take 4 to 6 hours, depending on how much time you spend down there. Well within natures tolerance of visiting her.

[Bisquitlips]

Originally Posted by mixedccr

You guys crack me up....
We use adult diapers, some suits actually do have a pee-valve. And for #2, well we put sod , and fibre and twigs and stuff, kinda like what bears do when they hibernate for winter........nah, just kidding......In water decompression for a dive say to 100m can take 4 to 6 hours, depending on how much time you spend down there. Well within natures tolerance of visiting her.

With this in mind, I would think also that I wouldn't eat for 24 hours before going down. And wear a catheter and bag!

Thanks for the information.

[Parachrom]

For those iquiring minds...piddle packs and depends undergarments. LAst i saw was a national geographic with a fella at 1500 feet with some super secret rebreather thing. As for SCUba not recommended below 130, but many have been down double that and lived to tell the tale. Then again many have been down double that and never came back up too! Think of all those dive watches just waiting to be picked up of the floor or some poor sods bones

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Stratton

I mean in water with just a diving suit and oxygen and not in a diving bell or chamber of any kind. With the Deep Sea now being able to withstand 12800ft I just wondered how deep down a man can go? I thought the SD 4000 was overkill but the Deep Sea seems like needless over engineering which doesn't mean that I don't have respect for that over engineering. It's an awesome watch.

Afraid pure oxygen is quite toxic past 10m you could not breath pure oxygen.
If I remember the deepest recorded dive just on scuba gear was in the Red Sea a few years back .By a guy called Nuno Gomes total depth was just over 318m.Now it only took him about 20 minutes to reach that depth,but because of breathing different gasses at that depth and pressure.A little over 12 hours with all the safety stops to finally return to the surface safe, and without any decompression treatment.Now at these extreme depths,there are several diving related problems to overcome nitrogen decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity,sheer dehydration and the different affects of the gases when changing over tanks containing the different gas mixtures.Now while breathing the high helium mix the gas wants to leave the blood while the nitrogen wants to rush in.

Now this dive would have not been possible without a huge back up and very careful planning.Gomes is in a very small group of guys that have gone over 250m with just scuba gear.Plain fact there have been more guys to go to the moon,that have got past 250m underwater just on scuba. But most recreational divers today stick to around 40m max depth.But when saturation diving what the SD and suppose the DSSD was intended for, when divers have finished working in the water. They rest eat do everything and live in a dry pressurised chamber on, or some how connected to a diving support vessel, or say a oil rig.But at the same pressure as the main working depth, the whole diving team would be only compressed to the working pressure once. And then decompressed to surface pressure again only once, over the entire work period, of days or weeks or even longer

[Gedanken]

Originally Posted by Bisquitlips

I would assume it's gonna fog up the helmet glass for a while. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it!

It brings tears to your eyes?! What about the poor bugger in the suit?

[Toxicant]

This guy went down 209m on a single breath.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=591_1198291743

[Gedanken]

Originally Posted by Toxicant

This guy went down 209m on a single breath.

Oh come on - the smell wasn't THAT bad!

[marke]

i thought that was a self portrait of me without my swiming cossie on,,,mmmmmm nice

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Toxicant

This guy went down 209m on a single breath.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=591_1198291743

Thats a totally different ball game his last gulp of air was at normal atmospheric pressure.Once you start to breath air or any other diving gas 2 atmospheres and over under pressure different rules apply.

[S320]

I usually go 12ft in the pool with my GMT on :)