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By Angela S. Hoover, Staff Writer
New Exosuit
Scientist Phil Nuytten has developed
a futuristic aluminum-alloy diving suit
that is exciting many in different fields
of science for future applications. The
exosuit allows divers to explore more
than 1,000 feet underwater – a depth
four times deeper than traditional diving
gear. There has not been an advance in
underwater suits since Nuytten’s 1985
Newtsuit; the first diving suit to use
rotary joints for increased flexibility.
The Exosuit is an improved version
of the Newtsuit that Nuytten calls a
suit of armor for the ocean. It takes a
team of four to strap a diver into the
530 lb, 6.5 foot long suit and connect
them to the wire communications. It
has 18 rotary joints, four jet thrusters,
multiple oxygen systems that support
up to 50 hours of diving and numerous
hand gadgets that can be attached and
remov