Fact Check. A vintage photograph perennially shared on social media purports to show an actual deep-sea diving suit from 1925 that looks more like a mash-up of the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz ...

US inventor H. L. Bowdoin with his deep sea diving suit in 1931. Imagno/Getty The all-metal suit was patented in 1914 by the inventor H. L. Bowdoin.

An old clip from the Discovery Channel show "MythBusters" demonstrating how a deep-sea explorer could implode in a depressurized diving suit has gone viral after the Titanic sub disaster.

The pressure underwater increases by about one atmosphere every 10 meters. "MythBusters" experimented to see how an implosion looked at 300 feet.

The US Navy recently completed tank tests of a new deep-diving suit called the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system that is light and flexible, yet maintains sea-level ...

Full figure of a man in underwater hard hat deep sea diving suit, 1930/40s. A diver from the French Navy uses a Newtsuit, an atmospheric diving suit (ADS), during a training session on December 1, ...

The Navy is developing a new “Iron Man” diving suit that aims to enhance diver safety and allow them to work longer and in deeper waters.. The Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression ...

image: A U.S. Navy diver (center) tests the Office of Naval Research-sponsored Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Florida.

'MythBusters' video shows what a deep-sea ... Then they put the mannequin in an old diving suit and sank it 300 feet underwater, where the pressure is about nine times as great as that at sea ...