Diving the Mariana Trench

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DiveNav

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Today I made my first virtual dive at the Central Mariana Trench :wink:
This site is incredible: lots of steep walls, ridges and a very deep canyon.

As mentioned in my earlier post, since it is impossible to dive - even virtually - the original site as it is 250km x 250km wide and almost 9,000 meters deep we created a "shrunk" version. Basically we scaled the site 250:1 horizontally and 100:3 vertically ... then to make it even more manageable we moved up every thing by 30 meters:

central mariana trench_shrunk.png


Next is to add a bit of marine life - maybe even some dangerous Vyper fish :D

Alberto (aka eDiver)
 
Do what? Virtual dive... Are there any virtual fish? Can we play tag online?
 
Do what? Virtual dive... ...
As an example, let's see if you can get to the bottom (~700ft) and come back without killing your diver .... what should your dive plan be? what gasses? or do you prefer a CCR dive? If so, how many diluents?

...... Are there any virtual fish? ....
of course. Some bites too

....Can we play tag online?
yes, the site is available in multiplayer mode. And be careful, I always carry with me the P12 underwater pistol :wink:
 

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