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Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1115 Spoiler

Chapter 1115: "Continental Fragments"

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Ch. 1115 Official Release (Mangaplus): 05/27/2024

Ch. 1116 Scan Release: ~05/31/2024 - No break!


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u/The_Attractor May 25 '24

200 meters are pretty deep. The best free diver, Herbert Nitsch reached 214 meters, and then 253 but he almost got killed in the last one. This guy is Aquaman and yet he had to prepare months before a single deep dive. This is how deep a man can go, but you can't really explore without proper scuba gear. Thing is, even with scuba gear the deepest dive was done by Ahmed Gabr who went 332 meters spent more than 10 years preparing and had a team of over 30 people helping him successfully complete this record attempt.

In the 1980's though scuba diving was much more primitive and dangerous. In the One Piece world, where you have zero technology, weird currents, sea creatures and extreme phenomena, exploring at 200 meters would be impossible for humans.

But not for fishmen. I think that's why the WG spent a lot of effort to isolate them from the rest of the world.

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u/ShikiRyumaho May 25 '24

Those diving scrappers at jaya seemed to be doing fine.

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u/The_Attractor May 25 '24

We've seen the Saruyama Alliance dive, but nowhere near exploring and mapping the deep sea. They had rudimentary methods and were mostly salvaging. The only one who was doing the heavy diving was Cricket who was suffering from decompression sickness. Cricket was definitely not fine, if he continued to dive he would most likely die. But that was a very small operation, they were mostly searching around Jaya, and given that in 200 meters deep there is barely any light they didn't seem to go that deep. And even salvaging had the risk of an attack by a random Sea King or some other aquatic creature.

The only one who could go to such depths would be Law, but where do you start searching? The OP world is huge.

I think the problem is that all the people who live in the islands didn't know that they were actually sitting on top of mountains in a submerged continent. They were led to believe that there is nothing really important under the sea, so they never bothered searching.

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u/Aazadan May 25 '24

200m in a world with submarines and the ability to make dedicated diving gear is very doable.

Furthermore, going by previous information, the ocean gets a lot deeper than 200m, ever look at the diagrams of how long Zuneshia's legs must be?

The more important information here is how much the sea has risen, and how much more it could rise before people are out of land.

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u/The_Attractor May 26 '24

Have we seen any submarines other than Law's that are actively searching the ocean floor? Cricket was the only diver, and he had the bends all the way. It seems Oda did his research because according to Wikipedia:

The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at an approximate depth of 200 m (660 ft) or the point of transition from continental shelves to continental slopes.\1])\2]) Conditions within the deep sea are a combination of low temperatures, darkness, and high pressure.\3]) The deep sea is considered the least explored Earth biome as the extreme conditions make the environment difficult to access and explore.\4])

Even the most experienced scuba diver with all the right gear should do a very slow ascent, or have a decompression chamber, because the more you stay underwater, the more time you have to spend decompressing. It's something that even today requires months of preparation, a large crew etc. and isn't exactly safe at such depths.

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u/Aazadan May 26 '24

We've not seen others, but the fact that Law has a sub implies that more should somewhere. OP is a big world, and it's made abundantly clear that there's stuff out there we haven't seen and probably haven't heard of. Law isn't going to have a one off technological marvel like that.