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Old 3rd Jul 2019, 16:30
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ORAC
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Just looking at the design, and the missions working on cables, I was wondering if any of the spheres were for deep divers - where the record depth is over 2000ft.


https://web.archive.org/web/20081005...20anglais.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

”Deep diving can mean something else in the commercial diving field. For instance early experiments carried out by Comex S.A. (Compagnie maritime d'expertises) using hydrox and trimix attained far greater depths than any recreational technical diving. One example being the Comex Janus IV open-sea dive to 501 metres (1,644 ft) in 1977.[2]
[3] The open-sea diving depth record was achieved in 1988 by a team of Comex divers who performed pipeline connection exercises at a depth of 534 metres (1,752 ft) in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the Hydra 8 programme.[4] These divers needed to breathe special gas mixtures because they were exposed to very high ambient pressure (more than 50 times atmospheric pressure).“.....
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