Exploring the Deep
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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I've Never Been in Alvin.
Alvin is a hollow tetanian ball, and it's a couple of meters across. There are three of you in there for, you know, eight hours plus. No er sort of comfort facilities, and very small acrilic port holes. You stay at normal atmospheric pressure. We don't run into any of the problems that scobedivers have with decompression. But consequently, it has to be incredibly strong to us at normal one atmosphere. When it's in at five thousand meters, it's 500 atmospheres outside. So a real feat of engineering.
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