Beetle Moses | Bluesky
::: spoiler Transcript Three panel comic.
Panel 1: a guy wearing swim trunks and a snorkeling mask walks confidently into the ocean on a public beach surrounded by some scattered onlookers. He is carrying an electric lantern and his snorkeling tube is very tall, extending up and out of the frame.
Panel 2: he continues forward into the water, nearly fully submerged with only the top of his head above water. The snorkel is still too tall to be seen completely in frame. The onlookers watch blankly as he disappears under the surface.
Panel 3: the guy is walking casually at the abyssal floor of the ocean, where no light penetrates. His electric lantern illuminates his immediate vicinity. He is surrounded by a collection of weird deep sea creatures, including a deep sea isopod, vampire squid, chimaera, and barrel eye fish. Can you name all the creatures in frame? :::
85 Comments
the_tab_key@lemmy.world · 114 pts · 83d
Hope he has an air compressor at the top of that snorkle
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 83d
This comics remember me of a Darwin awards case i've read a while ago. The poor fella did some deep immersion under a lake using only a veeery long tube to breath. You can guess how it ended.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 83d
How? Surely you would find out almost immediately that you can't inhale against the water pressure and then just surface. It's not like you are getting to 15m before you struggle, IIRC for most people you will be struggling or completely unable to inhale by just 1m. Even with training you are at best adding a few cm.
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 83d
Found this article. He survived, so maybe he was just in the DA honorary mention. Or maybe there was another similar case. https://utdailybeacon.com/139825/news/man-improvises-scuba-dive-with-garden-hose/
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 83d
Holy shit, yeah that will do it...
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 83d
but... how? I mean, don't you feel it before dying that you can't breathe? Or he had too heavy gears to swim back at the surface?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 83d
" The Missouri State Water Patrol said he used the hose to snorkel 30-feet below the surface, with a 20-pound boat anchor tied to his waist to help him reach the bottom. "
M137@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 83d
breathe*
This seems to be the new word that people are unable to get right.
M137@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 83d
"This comic made me remember a Darwin awards case I read a while ago"*
I'm just trying to teach grammar and spelling, not busting your balls over it. It's clear English isn't your first language, same as me, just showing the correct (I think) way to write that sentence.
You did nothing wrong, I just saw an opportunity to show improvement and hope it helps. Continue learning, of course not only English grammar and spelling but everything in life.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 83d
Yep. Found this out with a garden hose in a pool.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 83d
I had that same physics lesson. Young me was so excited bringing the end of the hose, covered by my hand, to the bottom of the pool. I was almost out of breath when I got down there because swimming down while covering the hose was hard, but I figured it wasn't a problem because I was about to be able to breathe through it. I was pretty panicked when I quickly jammed the hose end into my mouth and it tried so suck the air out of me harder than I could suck it in.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 83d
I went into the pool with the hose in my mouth, so no problem with pressure. But a couple breaths later it was nothing but carbon dioxide so I didn’t make it too far before surfacing.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 83d
Wouldn't the easy fix there be to just exhale through your nose? Let the CO2 just escape, and use the hose only for inhalation.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 82d
Yes, but still. Water is going to want to fill the hose. You'd have to have the hose in your mouth for the entire descent and the deeper you go, the harder that water is going to push to try and get in that hose.
Like, a quarter-sized leak in a canoe might trickle in but a similar leak in a cruise liner (which is much further under the surface) would be like a geyser.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 83d
Could be. 12-year-old me didn’t think it was important enough to walk on the bottom of the pool to iterate on the idea.
Let me know how it goes.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 83d
This is an actual product though! I've seen them with filters at the top so waves don't suffocate you.
I hope they have something weighing them down, air in your lungs makes you wanna float
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 83d
Are you thinking of regular length snorkels with a valve? Never heard of longer ones as it's impossible to inhale against water pressure as you dive, plus it would be difficult to hold onto a very long tube.
Would like to do some snorkeling but the sea around where I live has pretty limited visibility, at best you can make out where your feet are. Got a swimming mask though and have seen some tiny fish before. But it's also a steeply sloping gravel beach so you almost immediately would be beyond snorkel depth and have to be free diving to get to the bottom
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 83d
Yeah I've seen them on the beach. Not sure if it was this exact model but they say up to 12m for a single diver.
cynar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
10m is deep enough to have to consider the bends (decompression sickness). That's definitely into diving rules territory.
The particular risk is it cutting off, due to the battery dying, forcing a rapid ascent.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 82d
I hope people using this device know about the bends! That company does list a reserve tank that has 10 minutes of air stored, which is the same as rising 1m per minute so they definitely thought of it.
Taldan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 81d
10m presents no real risk of DCS. Lung overexpansion injuries are the bigger concern. You'd have to be down for several hours to be at risk, which isn't feasible without environmental protection and warm water
Most dive tables don't even go to 10m, because the risk is so remote
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 83d
Interesting, although I feel like that is more like diving equipment than snorkeling.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 83d
No true snorkeler.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 83d
No, the difference is that snorkeling is something anyone can do, diving requires training. Largely because diving is far more likely to kill you if you do something you may not realise is a bad idea.
Not a trained diver but stuff like lung overpressure sounds pretty bad and can't be caused snorkeling but could be caused with diving equipment.
Devadander@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 83d
Yes, snorkels exist. But the depth they are usable is limited to only about a meter, before you cannot take in air
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 83d
I'm talking about a floating mini compressor, like this one
Badabinski@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 83d
That device kinda terrifies me. Like, I appreciate that SCUBA gear is so... simple. No electronics, no batteries, just relatively straightforward pneumatic equipment. At least you're not very deep if the compressor shits the bed.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 83d
Same, as a SCUBA diver I would take a snorkel over this and just dive down. I'd probably give it a shot to test out once though
Devadander@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
Fascinating, but that’s not a snorkel. More like a modernized version of the old manned bellows on ships supplying air to the diver below
sundray@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 83d
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 83d
That's a bit pedantic isn't it.
"A long snorkel wouldn't work you'd need a compressor"
provides one with a mini floating compressor
"Yeah but now it's no longer a snorkel"
Okay
Devadander@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Who are you quoting? There’s no need to make up arguments and insult me. That’s not a snorkel by definition.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 82d
I'm quoting this chain of replies? Context is important before you start replying. Just because you didn't write the first doesnt make it's context irrelevant.
"Hope he has an air compressor at the top of that snorkle"
"Those exist!"
"Now it's not a snorkel anymore"
I cut out the part where you misunderstood my reply and had a snarky "yes, snorkels exist" but that's the gist of it
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 83d
it's not that long
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Four thousand metres long snorkels aren't available on Amazon, that's for sure. Maybe on the Chinese sites?
BillyClark@piefed.social · 1 pts · 83d
I agree with you, but I am surprised that you could tell that he has sleep apnea.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 83d
I know its just a comic but when I see these I can't ignore the reality that a snorkel doesn't work if you are that deep. You can't overcome the pressure differential.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 31 pts · 83d
You'd be breathing in and out the same air from the tube anyways, since its volume would be larger than you lungs
fdnomad@programming.dev · 8 pts · 83d
what if you breathe in from the snorkel and breathe out into the water?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 83d
That's where the water pressure problem kicks in. You only have to be a couple feet down before you can't expand your chest enough to get a breath through a tube. It's very surprising.
Emi@ani.social · 5 pts · 83d
Never thought of that, you would need to keep the water from entering the snorkel tho. Or just put pressurised air from the surface into the snorkel but then you just end up with old timey diving suit.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
You mean because of taking the mouthpiece out of your mouth? Just breathe in through the snorkel and out through your nose. The unbeatable problem is the water pressure on your chest keeping you from inhaling.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
That too.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
What if he has really powerful lungs?
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 17 pts · 83d
Lol. I thought that was a bottle of liquor... Jameson?
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 83d
Breathing through tube would become impossible after 4 feet deep, mass me wonder how scuba divers breath then I realize the that the tanks put out a lot of pressure
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 82d
The tube is drawn to be super long
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 82d
Breathing becomes impossible beyond that length because there's no time for fresh air to get in. He'd suffocate on his own exhalation before long.
ammonium@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
If that was the only issue one could just not breath out in the tube. But there's another problem: Breathing becomes impossible because you can't breathe due to the pressure of the water on your chest.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 82d
Yep. Keep going and you'll be forced up the tube in a fashion not unlike toothpaste.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 82d
I'm also very much doubting the scale of some of those deep sea creatures. The problem is most of the footage of them that exists does so without anything for scale. Most of them are quite tiny. The goblin shark might be just about right.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 82d
Quite a few of the photos taken are shot around the base of oil rigs, so we do actually have a scale for some of them.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 82d
Right, but in the YouTube videos I've seen there's usually no visual reference. Or if there is, there's no way to tell how big it is either.
uberfreeza@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 83d
That's completely unrealistic! How is he walking without weights?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 83d
He uses the weight of his problems to keep him down
Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 83d
The same way he's surviving the bottom of the ocean without being crushed into a slurry.
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
Achtuhally you're standing on the bottom of the ocean as soon as you take a step in the water
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 82d
Okay, clarification for anyone who can't understand context clues as well as smarmy know it alls, the bottom of the deep ocean. Like stupid billionaire tin-can crushing deep.
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
I haven't seen the other comments, but dont worry, I got what you meant 😄
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 83d
This happens to me when I try to swim on open sea
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 83d
Subnautica, is that you?
perishthethought@piefed.social · 12 pts · 83d
I thought of Ponyo.
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 83d
Gotta be the nicest and most wholesome beetlemoses comic I've ever seen
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
with lungs able to maintain 1 atmophere at that depth… the fish better fear him
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
There's nothing in this picture that doesn't scare me
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 83d
Patrick, we took the wrong bus again.
Nurgus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 82d
I disagree with the transcript. He's clearly bringing a bottle of wine to his new friends. That was my first impression and I'm sticking with it.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
I thought it was beer
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
Bro walked to All Blue.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 83d
Problem is, CO2 is heavier than O2, so you would suffocate.
Tja@programming.dev · 5 pts · 83d
You would stop being able to inhale before that becomes a concern (every 10m of water creating 1 atm of pressure on your body impeding you to expand your lungs).
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 83d
What’s the lowest a human could dive before suffocating because of the lack of muscular strength to inhale?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 83d
Quite pathetic, actually. Only maybe 3 to 4 meters.
Human lungs are not designed to resist outside pressure like that.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 83d
I was honestly not aware of how much support air tanks provide, as I have been 30m deep.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 83d
You should try breathing through a long tube sometime. (While being fully aware that you'll probably need to swim back to the surface in order to breathe!) Even at very shallow depths, it becomes quite difficult. By the time you get to the bottom of an average swimming pool, it becomes completely impossible.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
I see: Vampire squid, giant squid, goblin shark, barrel eye fish, Spider crab, Giant isopod? And what I wanna say is a pelican eel?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 81d
Missed the anglerfish and comb jelly.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d
Is there a part 2 coming with the joke, or....?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d
Not every comic has to be humorous
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 82d
Yuh huh!
Sidhean@piefed.social · 1 pts · 82d
The joke is that the diver, equipped with only a snorkel and a lantern, ventured deep into the ocean. It is physically impossible to breathe via snorkel at this depth, thus achieving either humor or asphyxiation.
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 2 pts · 83d
Lol. I thought that was a bottle of liquor... Jameson?
apex32@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
Reminds me of Pee-Wee using his headlight glasses.
https://youtu.be/RUxz8PXX1iQ
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 83d