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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] ADS NewtSuit/HardSuit Applications
David, I don't want to step on Phil's toes by answering this, but I had
a couple of thoughts regarding the claustrophobia issue. I imagine that
any person could feel claustrophobic in an enclosed space like a
submarine, and that this feeling could be expected to be worse as the
space gets smaller. For someone prone to feelings of claustrophobia, I
would expect the worst case scenario to be a tin can not much bigger
than the person, which affords them some mobility within it, but not
enough to prevent them from feeling hopelessly confined. When you
continue to make the space smaller, such that the suit becomes not so
much a tin can to move within, but rather a suit in the true sense of
the word, where it simply moves with you and ceases to be an enclosed
space so much as simply the appropriate clothing for the prevailing
conditions, I would expect the psychology to be much different - in
essence, the operator being well dressed in one of the most wide-open
spaces imagineable.
Just conjecture on my part. I could be wrong.
-Sean
David Bartsch wrote:
I have a serious phobia of being confined (this suit would really
fall under this definition of being seriously restrained) while this
confined space slowly fills with water...In a psub, you have at least
enough room to bend over and kiss your *&*#4 a kiss goodbye.
What if last nights chilli turned out not to be so good once down
to 800'?
These suits are really fantastic, these are just not for me.
David Bartsch
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