Portable Underwater Habitat Boosts Extreme Dives | On Assignment

science sinks to new lows and that’s a
good thing for divers I’m Lucie McNeil
and this is National Geographic on
assignment you’re linked to thousands of
NatGeo explorers around the globe today
we’re after the Bahamas in the Atlantic
Ocean deep water coral reefs are a new
frontier in ocean exploration but until
now the complexities of working at water
depths of more than 250 feet made
studying they’re extremely difficult
national Geographics Mike Lombardi has
invented a portable diver bat at that
helps scientists work at these depths
humans have to end your long
decompression delays as they surface for
their bodies to adjust to the changing
water pressures might habitat eases
these tedious wait times by allowing
divers to take off their masks stay warm
and even eat easier decompressions means
divers can stay at depth longer giving
them more time to study and explore
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