Newtsuit
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The Newtsuit is an atmospheric diving suit
designed and originally built by Phil Nuytten
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The suit is used for work on ocean drilling rigs, on pipelines, salvage jobs, photographic surveys, and is standard equipment in many of the world’s navies.
This aluminum hard suit has fully articulated, rotary joints in the arms and legs that give the pilot a great range of mobility. These joints operate freely at high pressures. At the time the suit was constructed, it was the first of its kind in this regard. The pilot can control objects and handle tools with manipulator jaws at the ends of the arms. Although the suit is certified to 300 metres, it has been tested to 900 metres.
The suit operates untethered, with a thruster pack that can be fitted to the suit. This allows mobility in mid-water. The Newtsuit navigates with foot controls. The left foot provides vertical control, with the right foot providing lateral control. Other equipment that can be attached includes twin video cameras, colour imaging sonar
, and an AMS suit monitor system that transmits information to the surface, such as CO2, HPO, O2%, depth, temperature, and cabin pressure.
Communication is achieved through digital voice/data transmission via water and umbilical cord.
called the "Exosuit", also designed by Phil Nuytten.
Atmospheric diving suit
An atmospheric diving suit or ADS is a small one-man articulated submersible of anthropomorphic form which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere...
designed and originally built by Phil Nuytten
Phil Nuytten
Phil Nuytten is a Canadian entrepreneur, deep-ocean explorer, scientist, inventor of the Newtsuit, and founder of Nuytco Research Ltd....
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The suit is used for work on ocean drilling rigs, on pipelines, salvage jobs, photographic surveys, and is standard equipment in many of the world’s navies.
This aluminum hard suit has fully articulated, rotary joints in the arms and legs that give the pilot a great range of mobility. These joints operate freely at high pressures. At the time the suit was constructed, it was the first of its kind in this regard. The pilot can control objects and handle tools with manipulator jaws at the ends of the arms. Although the suit is certified to 300 metres, it has been tested to 900 metres.
The suit operates untethered, with a thruster pack that can be fitted to the suit. This allows mobility in mid-water. The Newtsuit navigates with foot controls. The left foot provides vertical control, with the right foot providing lateral control. Other equipment that can be attached includes twin video cameras, colour imaging sonar
Sonar
Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels...
, and an AMS suit monitor system that transmits information to the surface, such as CO2, HPO, O2%, depth, temperature, and cabin pressure.
Communication is achieved through digital voice/data transmission via water and umbilical cord.
Specifications
- Length: 162 – 193 cm (5'4" – 6’4")
- Beam: 76 cm (30")
- Weight: 275 kg to 378 kg
- Weight in water: -2 to -4 kgs ( - 4 to -8 lbs) flying mode
- Hull: A356 cast aluminum
- Propulsion: two thruster packs (constant with variable pitch)
- Operational depth: 305 m (1000’) (tested to 900 m)
- Power: two electric 2.25 hp (at 400 Hz) electric motors, supplied by an umbilical cord to the surface ship, 5 hour emergency supply from batteries
- Life support: closed circuit rebreatherRebreatherA rebreather is a type of breathing set that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycled exhaled gas. This recycling reduces the volume of breathing gas used, making a rebreather lighter and more compact than an open-circuit breathing set for the same duration in environments where...
, (up to 48 hours) with fan powered CO2, and a back-up emergency rebreather.
Emergency equipment
In the event of an emergency, the suit is equipped with the following:- Tether cutter
- 37.5 kHz pingerUnderwater locator beaconAn underwater locator beacon or underwater acoustic beacon is a device fitted to aviation flight recorders such as the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. ULBs are also sometimes required to be attached directly to an aircraft fuselage...
- BallastBallast-Objects:* Ballast tank, a device used on ships and submarines and other submersibles to control buoyancy and stability* Ballast weights, metallic plates used to bring auto racing vehicles up to the minimum mandated weight...
jettison - XenonXenonXenon is a chemical element with the symbol Xe and atomic number 54. The element name is pronounced or . A colorless, heavy, odorless noble gas, xenon occurs in the Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts...
strobeStrobe lightA strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light. It is one of a number of devices that can be used as a stroboscope... - Radio frquency beacon
Exosuit
The newest generation of this type of suit is a powered exoskeletonPowered exoskeleton
A powered exoskeleton, also known as powered armor, or exoframe, is a powered mobile machine consisting primarily of an exoskeleton-like framework worn by a person and a power supply that supplies at least part of the activation-energy for limb movement.Powered exoskeletons are designed to assist...
called the "Exosuit", also designed by Phil Nuytten.
External links
- Image and specifications of the Exosuit
- Images of other hard, atmospheric diving suit, including the WASP series
- Image of Canadian astronaut Julie PayetteJulie PayetteJulie Payette, OC, CQ is a Canadian engineer and a Canadian Space Agency astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space...
in Newtsuit - Images
