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RE: [Original Novel] Pressure: First Encounter, Part 1
I was a commercial diver for years and have been down as deep a 1500 feet in a submarine (Pices)
image source NASA
Alex has really captured the atmosphere of a deep dive.
Glad to hear it. The Pisces is a fine boat, though the Rat Tail in the story is modeled after Alvin, post renovation.
is my memory still good. Alvin pre mod?
Yeah, just a few years ago it got rebuilt with a new larger, titanium pressure sphere (7 feet instead of 6, titanium instead of steel) and it's now "full ocean depth capable" i.e. about 4 miles, making the entirety of the abyssal plains accessible. Basically only trenches are unreachable to it now.