Beetle Moses | Bluesky

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?

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      27 days ago

      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.xyzEnglish
        49·
        27 days ago

        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.

      • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        24 days ago

        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
          14·
          27 days ago

          " 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
          45·
          26 days ago

          breathe*

          This seems to be the new word that people are unable to get right.

      • M137@lemmy.today
        53·
        23 days ago

        “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.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
        14·
        27 days ago

        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.cafeEnglish
          7·
          27 days ago

          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·
            26 days ago

            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.

            • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              3·
              26 days ago

              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.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    27 days ago

    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.

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    26 days ago

    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

    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      26 days ago

      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·
        26 days ago

        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·
          26 days ago

          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.

      • HereIAm@lemmy.world
        6·
        26 days ago

        Achtuhally you’re standing on the bottom of the ocean as soon as you take a step in the water

        • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          26 days ago

          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.

  • Nurgus@lemmy.world
    7·
    26 days ago

    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.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    26 days ago

    I see: Vampire squid, giant squid, goblin shark, barrel eye fish, Spider crab, Giant isopod? And what I wanna say is a pelican eel?