#justposeidonthings

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• notapantsday@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can go much deeper than 10 fathoms without supplemental oxygen, half the people reading this right now could do it with some training.

  The world record is 117 fathoms on a single breath.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Free divers are a bit crazy…

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, just brain damaged from oxygen deprivation

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• svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need supplemental oxygen at less than 1 fathom under water, if I stay there long enough…

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I highly recommend using compressed air over oxygen. Nitrox 100 (pure oxygen) becomes toxic below 5 meters…

    1.6 bars partial pressure Oxygen is considered unsafe / hazardous.

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nitrogen also becomes toxic, requiring you to substitute it with helium (or hydrogen).
      Interesting talk on the subject: youtu.be/skL5EQa8DFY

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• Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While we’re at it, 20000 leagues under the sea is the distance they travelled, not the depth

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  • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For scale, 20,000 leagues is almost 9 times the diameter of the Earth

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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How many fathoms do you have to go before even death may die?

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  • MelastSB@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of eons, which stand for time. But I like where your head’s at

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  • technohacker@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    'bout tree fiddy

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    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Dammit, monster! Get off my lawn! I ain’t giving you no tree-fitty!” It said, “How about just two-fitty?” I said, “Oh, now it’s only two-fitty!! What?! Is there a sale on Loch Ness munchies or something?!”

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• Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1 fathom = 1.8288 metres. Yeah, I get why it’s funny now.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s so funny about 1.8288m? I don’t get it.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And for people who don’t know how big that is. It’s about the height of a slightly tall man

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• mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfathomably based

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The end of that reads like the grim dark of the 40k universe there is nothing but war

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• SeabassDan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I read that as Just Poised on Things and thought it was very fitting.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And then some nerds with a cool camera robot get down there because they want to poke dead whales with shit and see what happens

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• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s 6 fathoms deep not 5 fathoms where you’re experiencing two atmospheres, and that’s absolute not gauge, so 1 atm higher than ambient.

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