# Pressurized diving suits - how?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressurized-diving-suits-how/519793>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressurized-diving-suits-how/519793 "2009-12-03T01:30:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressurized-diving-suits-how/519793/21 "2009-12-04T16:04:37Z")

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Those armored diving suits (the ones that have he diver at atmospheric pressure)-what is the crush depth for those things? It would elly suck to step off an underwater cliff, and get down to a depth where the armor fails!

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressurized-diving-suits-how/519793/22 "2009-12-04T16:09:48Z")

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The old Newt Suit bottomed out at around 300 meters. The latest ADS 2000 goes to about 600 meters.

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