How to Become an Aquanaut

So , you need to become an oceanaut ? Do you have the good hooey ? What is the right clobber ? Do you even live what an Aquanaut is ?

concord to Saul Rosser , Operations Director at Aquarius undersea inquiry base , An aquanaut is a diver that lives under the pee for 24 hours or more using saturation diving techniques and an submersed home ground to slumber , eat and process between dives .

The normal max bottom time do n’t apply when you ’re an Aquanaut as they do in normal diver . This is because a saturation diver does n’t endeavor to avoid their blood and tissues fill up with inert gasses that can belt down or maim a diver if they originate too rapidly . Saturation divers do n’t climb at all for many days . Instead , they impregnate their organic structure with these inert flatulency under the high imperativeness surround and they stay under pressure , resting between dives in a pressurized home like Aquarius that does not allow blood to bubblr as it might if a diver essay to swim to the surface without slowly decompress over the course of a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .

To become an Aquanaut you ’ve got to have a hot research proposal that requires steady , long period of time examine the sea itself or its inhabitants . Then , you ’ve got to make certain you could work and inhabit underwater without go .

That means getting medical foretoken off by a doctor and being able to drown 25 meters subaquatic on one breath , with no fins or mask . And cross 400 meters in 12 minutes . Then there ’s the dive experience requirement : at least 50 dives at approximately the 60 foot deepness that Aquarius Reef Base exists at . And you must be prosperous dive at dark , which is the aquanaut - ical equivalent weight of an evening stroll . in the end , Rosser say you must be “ well-to-do in the water with the gear and procedures need so that skin-diver are n’t surprised . ”

The divers on the mission next week will be using helmet with tether that pass audio and a nearly unlimited supply of air travel through a heavy responsibility helmet , so they have been practice using these hats , too . The photos and videos above are of the training sitting where the Aquanauts were expect to flood their helmets and vent them . This is a snatch tough in a 30 pound helmet that , unlike a scuba mask , will belike make the average underwater diver feel claustrophobic when it fills up with water .

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The Aquarius Reef Base ’s dive stipulation are a combining of standards AAUS ( The American Academy of Underwater Science ) and OSHA , which merge the great duty standards of hardhat plunger who will be lifting , welding and building things with the more intricate workplace of scientists which is still more demanding of civilian diving event .

How many Aquanauts have survive ? Rosser estimates that over 117 Aquarius Reef Base deputation , there have been 500 or so . And if you number all the aquatics through the last 50 years of foundation — perhaps 60 bases in full — he estimates the number in the thousands .

I ’ll be diving to Aquarius a few times this weekend , but I wo n’t saturate , which requires a day of decompression . So , I ca n’t technically change my title on my driver ’s licence to Aquanaut .

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