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Someone wrote:- > I would think that infections would also be of great concern after all this liquid is "flowing" around your head, hair, nasal passages, ears, etc [and thus also may get contaminated with shampoo and cosmetics etc]. On 6 Dec 1994, Roger Carlson wrote: > After some thought, there is one insurmountable problem: this is one wet suit you are never, never going to pee in. Or inhaling loose hairs or the effects of the body's other `sewage outfall'! The answer is obvious: in real life the suit would have a mouth-and-nose mask, or possibly a seal round the edge of the face. The fluorocarbon liquid would be too expensive anyway to fill the whole suit with it. (In the movie they had to show his full face to let his personality show, and that overcame practicality. Compare that:- (a) In a TV marine biology series that I saw, the diver wore a shallow water aqualung diving suit with a large bubblehead helmet (and also so she could talk to the camera without sounding `gasmasky'); (b) In `Star Wars', in the space fight, the goodies had open faces and the baddies wore fighter pilot masks.) Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*> replied on Tue 6 Dec 1994 11:55:51 +22305714 (HST) > What about a catheter with plumbing leading outside the suit? How did divers in the old hardhat suits after a century of experience with them cope with urgent natural function demands? (Some used a big napkin.)
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