Deep Sea 'Elephant' Diver

surrealis in #hive-189497 • 9 months ago

This diver wears a special suit designed for deep-sea diving. A lure cage is mounted on his back. When one of the sea-monsters takes the bait, he will be in the perfect position to attack its exposed gills. This old diving suit has seen many battles with undersea monsters and blends in with the landscape of the seafloor thanks to the barnacles and seaweed that overgrow it.

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Vintage diving suits are amazing, they come in all strange shapes and sizes, some of them look like alien space suits, other like bulky robots from old sci-fi TV shows.

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(Photo credit: Keystone-France).

1878 – This diving suit by the Carmagnolle Brothers was one of the the first truly anthropomorphic suits designs. The Carmagnolle suit is on display at the National Maritime Museum in Paris.
The suit weighs 837 pounds, it's 22 joints were made of partial sections of concentric spheres formed to create a close fit and intended to be kept watertight with a loop of waterproof cloth attached to both sections of the joint and folded so as to slide upon itself when the joint was moved.

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9 months ago in #hive-189497 by surrealis

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emanate-artworx 9 months ago

This guy looks like he's lumbering across the sea floor. Neat concept!
Hard to believe a diving suit could weight more than 800 pounds 😱

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surrealis 9 months ago

Thanks! Most of them must be very heavy, I noticed they often use cranes to put them in the water in old photos. I wonder what it would be like to be inside one of those. I'm not very claustrophobic, but I'd have to be convinced really hard to get into something like this.

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emanate-artworx 9 months ago

What an experience that would be! Enough to make anyone claustrophobic. I mean, how terrifying if you notice a leak while you're in it.

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poshthreads 9 months ago

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nitsuga12 9 months ago

Excelente trabajo como siempre, al instante que lo vi pense en los big dadys del juego Bioshock y justo mostraste la referencia que usaste que tambien es la que tomaron de referencia para hacer a esos personajes ajajaj increible como una misma cosa nos puede llevar a hacer dos diferentes pero con la misma esencia.
Me gusta que haya simetría en esta criatura y esa gran cantidad de lentes para ver a través de las profundidades, ahora que lo pienso tambien se parece un poco a las moscas.

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surrealis 9 months ago

I love Bioshock, there are some other diver suits I 3D modeled that are much closer to that design. I can definitely see an insect head in that helmet. I don't know what it is exactly with these diver suits, but they all look pretty creepy (in a good way!), it's a great source of inspiration. Thanks for re-posting :)

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