TransformerRobot Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 What is the strongest diving suit available? How much PSI can it take under the sea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy0816 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 looks like the WASP diving suit is the top: http://www.oceaneering.com/oceandocuments/brochures/subseaprojects/OPG%20-%20WASP.pdf Able to go down to 2300 feet or ~1036.74 psi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransformerRobot Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 That doesn't sound like much, because isn't it a lot higher at the very bottom of the ocean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) That depends on the depth of the ocean where you are. Pressure increases with depth. There are obviously problems with making suits survive the very bottom of the ocean for instance they have to be lightweight to allow movement Edited January 24, 2015 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 At the "bottom of the ocean" in the Mariana trench the pressure is about 15 times higher than that. But there's not a lot of point sending people to that depth. It's often said that we have five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. In a diving suit the only ones left are sight and hearing. It makes a lot more sense to send a camera and a microphone, rather than risking human life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enthalpy Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 What do you call a "suit": shall it protect the diver from water's pressure? If yes, it gets so thick that no movement is possible, so it's a hull instead, and so thick that it sinks, needing a separate float. Materials have a strong limit here. The resulting design is not a "suit" to my understanding, but a bathyscaphe. If it transmits water's pressure, a suit wouldn't look difficult to design for higher pressure, but then you must redesign humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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