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What is this thing?

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I regret not getting clearer pictures to zoom in and see the words on the instruments but I felt the need to be discreet as I was just walking by, these ocean-front home garages are rarely/NEVER left open unattended. What is this mystery chamber?

One more different angle picture in the comments, you can see the seating bench in the chamber.

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[–] LyD@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I could see an ultra rich scuba diver buying a hyperbaric chamber for their yacht. Decompression sickness is deadly and this is the only treatment. Hyperbaric chambers aren't common, there might not be one in an entire country. We get warnings about their availability when traveling. If you're diving off your yacht in a remote location, this could save your life.

That said, there's a step set up. Maybe they're shore diving at home and decided to splurge on something crazy and unnecessary.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LyD@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably more likely, I didn't know it was useful for stuff like plastic surgery.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Some people also just use them for purposes that are less clinical. Hyperbaric chambers back in the day were one of those cure-alls that were and are purported to treat all sorts of ailments, increase mental performance, sense of wellbeing, etc. I imagine it's a mix of real uses and bogus uses, but billionaires love to splurge on that kind of thing.

[–] OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 day ago

Time machine. That's how billionaires get richer, they go back in time and change little things to benefit themselves.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All that money and their garage looks as dirty and pleb as the rest of us.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently they do their laundry in the garage?! In that garage?

Edit: my comment is based on OP's second picture, in the comments. Also, they do laundry at all?!

[–] killea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They think it gives them "sexual" powers.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] killea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

dramatizationmaynothavehappened

[–] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Your second picture is a very recognisable location. I sussed out the house on Google maps - it’s a foreboding kind of architecture when it’s all closed up. I guess if you’re never there you don’t want people feeling like it’s accessible. The houses next door look like they have turntables for their cars in their driveways - that is some expensive luxury convenience there.

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