The biggest problem is he’s engineering in Imperial instead of SI units.
Am I assuming correctly that we’re looking at a big succ-situation, where the diver will big forced through the tube no matter what?
It’s a difference of like 7 psi over an area of what looks like maybe 30 square inches, which would be uncomfortable to get caught in, but I don’t think you’re getting Byford Dolphined
210 lbs will certainly keep you stuck there though
Top 10 ∆P incidents
This unfortunately happened in real life.
Edit: other way around though. The divers were on the air side (habitable quarters) of the chamber.
For more clarification, they were on the high pressure air side. The kind of dives they were doing involved long periods of acclimation to the different pressures involved, so the diving bell was pressurized to 9 atmospheres. Someone fucked up, and the door opened. 9 atmospheres turned into 1 atmosphere very quickly, and the only good thing is that it happened so fast that the deceased wouldn’t have even noticed
If you want to see an episode of a podcast about engineering disasters which is itself, ironically, an engineering disaster, well there’s your problem
