/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2232511

....You mean like this? These ones detach from the carrier. I don't see why a next gen Newt Suit couldn't detach from a sub. The main concern would be compromising hull integrity by adding more hatches.

>>2232492

>>The ideal solution would be to make better divers, rather than better habitats or subs.

A lot of people agree with you and this was the approach favored between the 1960s and 1980s, but the human body has limits, and can only adapt so much. It is better and safer to engineer around a standard human being's needs, at least that's the new position gradually supplanting the old one. Most resistance to it comes from veteran divers who have a lot of their pride locked up in their dive records and view that there's nothing they can't handle.