Part of the Navy's Initial Response Diving (IRD) project, the new prototype is designed to recycle part of the exhaled helium (Photo: US Navy/Anthony Powers) This works, but it has some drawbacks ...

And today, the same gas---rare as ever---is putting a major cramp in deep sea diving operations. The US Navy's divers are responsible ... The solution? A suit that recycles the air back into ...

The United States Navy recently announced a futuristic new diving suit that’s designed to use less helium. There’s only one problem: They made it look just like Cobra Eel, the mortal enemy of ...

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 ...

Moving around underwater in a diving suit is a lot less fun than it sounds. To survive at the deepest depths, divers need enormous, cumbersome, pressure-resistant suits that limit their mobility.

The Mark V, no longer used by the Navy, was a diving suit made of rubberized canvas ... and I feel it was a learning experience for all of us. The highest compliment is for someone to say ...

A search for a photo of a miniature submarine took me to a government website, and as I browsed the tiny thumbnails, I saw something better than a tiny sub in the water. I found a picture of a man ...