• Question: how far down under water could we go before dying from the pressure? (without equalising or dying of cold)

    Asked by confuddled213 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      The free-diving record is over 100 m. I don’t imagine we could get much farther than that without suffering greatly from the pressure.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 28 Jun 2012:


      It depends on whether you mean with scuba gear or not. If not, Tom has it.

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