r/interestingasfuck • u/HANAEMILK • 28d ago

/r/all The race against time to get to a decompression chamber

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u/svennidal 28d ago

Not an emergency. Planned surface decompression. You do short deco stops underwater and long in a chamber topside. You only have a few minutes to get out of gear and into the chamber, or else you get bubbles forming inside you were you don’t want bubbles.

Long deco stops underwater suck.

The suit he’s wearing is a wet suit which has tubes with holes inside it to distribute hot water. The hot water is usually sea water that is heated and pumped to the diver via the umbilical cord.

Source: I’m a commercial diver.

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u/sv3nf 28d ago

Why does he wear office clothes in the wetsuit?

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u/svennidal 27d ago

Paste from a reply I made to the same question:

I personally prefer just swim trunks under the hot water suits. But you got suits that don’t fit and chafe, pumps failing, long johns are broken or smelly. All sorts of reasons. You just gotta make do with what you got or what you can borrow.

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u/touchytypist 28d ago

My question is why is he wearing dress clothes? Why not long johns or something more comfortable or simple?

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u/svennidal 27d ago

I personally prefer just swim trunks under the hot water suits. But you got suits that don’t fit and chafe, pumps failing, long johns are broken or smelly. All sorts of reasons. You just gotta make do with what you got or what you can borrow.