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Chainmail body suits exist for diving where there is a risk of attack
by
sharks or other predators.
These protect well against penetrating wounds from teeth, but not
against crush injuries or being shaken.
With BorgCo SCUBA armour, safety is assured. Resembling
mediaeval
plate armour,
it is fully articulated and protects against both biting
and
crushing; the articulation of the joints is intentionally limited so that
the
normal flexion of skeletal joints cannot be exceeded (degree and
range
of movement fully adjustable).
The helmet faceplate is armour glass and the gas supply bottles and
pipework are similarly protected.
The mass of the armour is compensated simply by removing
weights
from the diver's weightbelt.
Be it a Humbolt squid, a Great White, or a salt-water crocodile, if you
want to dive in dangerous places, BorgCo diving armour is what you
need.
No need to protect the gas bottles.
http://www.porcelai...-tank-gives-gas.htm
[MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 19 2014]
Bear Suit
http://en.wikipedia...ject_Grizzly_(film)
[bs0u0155, Aug 19 2014]
Like one of these, then?
http://en.wikipedia...spheric_diving_suit
Various "hard" diving suits... [neutrinos_shadow, Aug 20 2014]
[link]
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One thing about weights, they're supposed to be able to be jettisoned in emergencies. Will this armor be removable via explosive bolts? |
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Some weights will still be required. Titanium's quite light, and chosen
because it's very stiff. Some components could be carbon fibre,
aluminium, steel or GRP - whatever's best for the specific application.
316SS is pretty tough, but would be much heavier than Ti.
Aluminium's susceptible to chloridic corrosion. |
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I may have left my pet jellyfish in that little reservoir thing built into your SCUBA armor pants, 8th. Let me know if you find it. |
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Is SCUBA divers getting bitten by sharks a big
problem? |
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For the SCUBA divers that get bitten, yes. For the ones that don't, not
so much. |
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Generally not. SCUBA bubbles are so noisy it annoys the sharks and they tend to stay away. Kind of if I came into your office and began singing in a monotone " bubbly bubbly...bubbly bubbly..." over and over. One of us would have to leave. |
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Now freediving spearos, who try to sneak around silently and put blood in the water by killing fish periodically, that's a different set of odds. |
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// it annoys the sharks // |
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What's wrong with this picture ... ? |
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//I came into your office and began singing in a monotone " bubbly
bubbly...bubbly bubbly..." over and over. One of us would have to
leave. // |
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Not necessarily... at least, not until the decomposition of your corpse
became an issue. |
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//singing in a monotone " bubbly bubbly...bubbly bubbly..." |
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Just call it minimalism and apply for an arts council grant. |
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You could start with a simple youtube video and gauge fundability by likes / dislikes. |
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Talking about the monotone bubbly bubbly song now. |
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Well, I always did want to be in a band. Never did imagine this path though. |
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