Remote monitoring of critical physiological factors of the saturated diver

Saturated divers are as completely separated from surface support personnel as an astronaut on the moon is from mission control. While determing the aquanaut's condition is at least as important, since in some respects he is operating in a more hostile environment, our present ability to remotely monitor the aquanaut's condition is more limited than that which NASA has achieved with the astronaut. For the long term, advances are required in the state - of - the - art of sensing elements and voice communications. For the immediate future application of existing technology and repackaging is required to safely exploit the demonstrated technique of saturated diving.