Improvements on Diving Bell Allow More Efficiency
Since Roman times humans have been venturing to the bottom of the ocean to seek
treasure and work, and since then they have been using diving bells to do it. For those who don’t know, a diving bell is a giant hollow structure, usually made of metal, in the shape of a bell. |
When it is lowered into the water, it retains the air the was inside of it on the surface, allowing divers to breathe while underwater. When it is time to leave the bell, the occupant carries a tube connected to the bell, allowing them air to breathe. Occupants have weights attached to their bodies which help to prevent the bell from tipping over underwater and trapping divers.
However, reports and first had accounts of many people who went down into the deep dark depths of the sea, never to be seen or heard from again, have certainly surfaced (no pun intended). |
![]() Drawing of a Diving Bell
Many of these incidents are caused because of stale air in the bell; When all the air in the bell has already been breathed in once, it becomes depleted in its oxygen content and no longer would be of help to any human. This depletion of oxygen has caused many a diver to literally suffocate underwater. |
Well, fear not ocean-goers! The year is 1690 and no one should be afraid to go to the depths of the ocean in a diving bell. “Why,” you ask? Well, Edmund Halley has come up with a solution to all that stale air. He’s invented a way to replenish air inside the bell by lowering a weighted barrel filled with air down with the bell. Connected to the barrel is a leather hose which allows that air to make its way in. This new innovation will change the face of underwater exploration as we know it, allowing bottom-dwellers to dwell there for much longer, greatly increasing efficiency.
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