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• These could never work past about 15 feet without discomfort because there is no way to equalize the pressure in front of the eyes. The ocean pressure would try to squeeze you into these small compartments (meaning it would feel like your eyes were popping out of your head). Real diving goggles are called masks and they cover your nose so that you can equalize your mask as you go deeper. You simply blow air through your nose and the pressure in the mask is raised to that of the surrounding water pressure. This is quite similar to equalizing pressure behind your tympanic membranes (ear drums) by blowing air through your eustacian tubes to get the pressure behind your ear drums to match that of the surrounding water at your particular depth.

  Posted by: rdarlington on September 7, 2006 at 8:34 PM

• This maybe true, for the sea-wussies of today. Folks were tougher back in those days! By Golly, we had to wrestle rabid manatee's just so we could go-a-fishing (when we weren't hiking 30 miles barefoot to the nearerst town so we could work for 16 hours in a factory) *WEEEZE*

  Posted by: Lagg on September 7, 2006 at 9:38 PM

• Note that the man in the illustration isn't wearing any scuba gear. I don't think that he's going to dive hundreds of feet.

  This project reminds me of the Inuit snow goggles that I have seen in Boy's Life when I was a kid and in the Smithsonian.

  Posted by: jmassaglia on September 8, 2006 at 8:39 AM

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