Pressure
One atmosphere every ten meters. Feel it in a table.
One atmosphere every ten meters
At the surface you carry one atmosphere of pressure. At ten meters, two. At a hundred, eleven. Your lungs don't feel the weight — they feel the squeeze.
0 m 1 atm 100% lung volume 10 m 2 atm 50% 20 m 3 atm 33% 30 m 4 atm 25% 40 m 5 atm 20% ← the freefall starts 100 m 11 atm 9% ← residual volume 120 m 13 atm 8% ← beyond every CWT record
Boyle's law, felt
Pressure and volume are inverses. Halve the depth, double the pressure. This table is why you equalize early — and why the last ten meters are the longest.