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There’s a strange sense of scale on that thing. You wouldn’t immediately look at it and say that two people can fit inside for 30 days. EDIT: 30 days between m
by SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
There’s a strange sense of scale on that thing. You wouldn’t immediately look at it and say that two people can fit inside for 30 days.
EDIT: 30 days between maintenance. I’m a dirty skimmer.
- riversflow 3y agoWhat? > Alvin enables in-situ data collection and observation by two scientists to depths reaching 6,500 meters, during dives lasting up to ten hours. Maybe you misskimmed: > Alvin is a proven and reliable platform capable of diving for up to 30 days in a row before requiring a single scheduled maintenance day
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI did skim! :) Don’t do that.
- meepmorp 3y agoI think it's 30 days of diving, not 30 continuous days submerged. You can use it a whole month before you need to take a maintenance day. There's a 3d panorama view of the interior of the sphere linked from the article - I doubt anyone's spending more than a day in there at a go, let alone with someone else. Edit: apparently, it's 3 people - the pilot and 2 scientists.