Amazing new diving suit turns wearer into Aquaman
Suit allows its human wearer to breathe liquid like a fish, making deeper dives possible.
Photo: SuperSumoYakuza/Flickr Comments
Humans are indeed capable of "breathing" water (or oxygenated liquid in this case). In drowning victims, oxygen exchange still takes place in the lungs when they are filled with water, albeit much more slowly than with air. The problem occurs when all the oxygen in the liquid is all used up. Lungs are designed to move gases, not pump out a liquid. Even if the liquid drawn into the lungs is highly oxygenated, there would still be a point where the oxygen content is depleted and more oxygenated.... More
A good representation: Take a 20oz. soda bottle and fill it to the brim with water and a really dark food coloring, like blue. Then completely submerge the bottle, nozzle up, into a larger container of un-dyed water. See how long it takes for the blue liquid (depleted oxygen) in the bottle (lung) to flow out on its own. Better yet, give the submerged bottle a few squeezes with your hand (lungs contracting) to see how the blue liquid squirts out, but then sucks right back into the bottle the.... More
I feel kind of sorry for the narwhal that Aquaman is punishing in the header photo. Sure, the narwhal looks a bit devious there, but how evil can a narwhal really be?
Aquaman is a narwhal bully!
A narwhal's "horn" is really a tooth, or teeth growing together. It protrudes from its mouth, not its forehead. I seems Aquaman might be pounding a real sea-meany.
Humans are indeed capable of "breathing" water (or oxygenated liquid in this case). Even in drowning victims, oxygen exchange still takes place in the lungs when they are filled with water, albeit much more slowly than with air. The problem occurs when all the oxygen in the liquid is used up. Lungs are designed to push out a gas, not pump out a liquid. Even if the liquid drawn into the lungs is highly oxygenated, there would still be a point where the oxygen content is depleted and more.... More
Your completely skipping over how oxygen is used in the body, even if it is taken in as a fluid into the lungs the fluid would give off it's oxygen; that oxygen then move's though your blood stream just the same as if it started in the normal air. If you then rise to quickly you can still have problems.
There are five basic dangers in diving,
1. the bends which is caused by nitrogen in your system.
2. CNS which is cause by Oxygen build up in your system.
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I'm not saying it would be easy, or pleasant, but once forced, you'd take a breath of water. Most folks who drown are found with lungsful of water because eventually they respirate it (though, because it's water and not some oxygenated fluid, they die).
The article and the scientist do not address at all how the liquid will be expelled from the lungs at the end of the dive and how the diver will avoid secondary drowning by having lungs collapsing from washout surfactant.
what i wonder is what happens when you are breathing the liquid and you swallow how would your esophagus know when to close it would just feel liquid and want to continue letting that liquid into your stomach. even if only a small amount entered your stomach how would your stomach digest liquefied oxygen
In the movie, "The Abyss," Ed Harris' character uses the suit not to circumvent decompression sickness, but to allow him to dive to such a depth.
The main issue with breathing gases deep underwater is that the gas, itself, needs a cavity in which to expand before we inhale. We can all agree that the deeper you dive, the more pressure the water exerts on your body. If you attempt to dive to depths further than Mr. Gomes, the water would begin to use the air cavity in your body and.... More
I can't swim, I wonder if this would work for me? I could actually walk and wouldn't need to swim at all!
"he suit would also be equipped with a mechanical gill that would attach to the diver's femoral vein in the leg"
-What? So you need to insert a catheter into your vein while wearing this suit. Enjoy getting infection especially while underwater with a needle in your groin. Good luck finding victims, I mean volunteers.
I have a huge urge to try this, considering that every few months I have a dream that I can breathe while underwater.
Who here really thinks they could force water into your lung, the only way I think i could cope is if someone essentially drowned me lol. Would work tho !
...but you wouldn't drown, because you'd have oxygen. You might freak out for a minute, but then you'd realize you were alive and get over it. I'm not saying it would be easy, or pleasant, but once forced, you'd take a breath of water. Most folks who drown are found with lungsful of water because eventually they respirate it (though, because it's water and not some oxygenated fluid, they die).
sign me up please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can not believe there wouldn't be a waiting list to try this. If this opens up for trials I'm in. SCUBA would never be the same. Forget the NDCL.
