Fact Check. A vintage photograph perennially shared on social media purports to show an actual deep-sea diving suit from 1925 that looks more like a mash-up of the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz ...

An old clip from the Discovery Channel show "MythBusters" demonstrating how a deep-sea explorer could implode in a depressurized diving suit has gone viral after the Titanic sub disaster.

Then, in 1827, the first functioning diving suit was invented. Augustus Siebe, a British engineer, took a patented firefighters' copper smoke helmet and attached it to a diver's head with weights.

The pressure underwater increases by about one atmosphere every 10 meters. "MythBusters" experimented to see how an implosion looked at 300 feet.

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A diving suit rated for 300 feet is a lot less impressive once you realize the deepest free diver managed a depth of 700 feet without any fancy equipment. Sándor Dávid Papp May 7, 2023 05:03 AM.