Talk:Vehicles/@comment-31451765-20170529055840

'''I think there are plenty of good ideas already and the design of all four (as the seaglide is actually a form of transit) forms of transport are currently more than sufficient for any lone/single survivors needs. I do feel that the capabilities fall short on the technical level. On our own planet we are capable of the following depths given our oceans salinity and atmospheric pressures.'''

*Deepest explorers 
 * Bathyscaphe Trieste – 11,000 m.
 * Deepsea Challenger – 11,000 m.
 * Jiaolong – 7,500 m.
 * DSV Shinkai 6500 – 6,500 m.
 * Konsul – 6,500 m.
 * MIR – 6,000 m.
 * Nautile – 6,000 m.
 * DSV Alvin – 4,500 m.

'''All are smaller than our beloved cyclops and yet all dive deeper than out cyclops. There are plenty of reasons for not being able to match the above design spec's with today's technology but we really are not playing with today's technology are we. Or is it we do not have access to the materials required to meet those spec's? If that were so how could we really hope to build something that flew us to the location in the first place. Or on the same note be able to magically input raw materials and output a working 3d printed cyclops in the first place? The seamoth design should allow us to reach at the least 3 to 4 thousand meters even if the salinity is 5 to 10 times that of our own ocean with the technology we are using. Any mining interest would want the plans and materials to be available to mine at almost any depth known. I also think that sonar should be on anything designed for that sort of environment. as well as the ability to carry out a submersible mineral extraction (or if not that, then a survey of available materials) and still be able to defend itself or have defensive capabilities built in if no weapons are to be available. The habitable pressure hull of the Consul class DSV is about the size of the seamoth's and goes to 6 thousand meters and that is with our current technology. I love this game so much I have more than 700 hours into it and most at experimental mode. Keep up the excellent work'''



*info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_vehicle