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Subscribers have written:- > My impression of Phil Nuytten's suit ... > I saw a Newt Suit, and a presentation by Phil Nuytten ... > However, the present suit is not considered the ultimate Newt Suit ... (1) In these suits, what does the word `Newt' refer to? The animal, or someone's (P.Nuytten's?) name or nickname, or it is a set of initials? (2) Re:- (a) comparisons between diving suits and spacesuits (and indeed Russian uses the same word `skafandr' for both!), (b) the problems of getting `saturation divers' who have been at bends depth for a long time (in one case on a diving program that I saw on UK television some years ago, the diving plan was that diver surfaced after some but not enough decompression in the water and was hastily shoved into a decompression chamber in the diving vessel: due to its lack of a way of carrying a diver laden with dissolved gas to the surface keeping him under pressure), is there any likelihood (certainly too expensive for sport diving) of a deep water diving suit like this?:- At depth it is unpressurized and acts like an ordinary drysuit, but on ascent it can be pressurized like a spacesuit to keep him at depth pressure while he surfaces.
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