Diver

Divers, sometimes delvers, are individuals who regularly enter cessation zones for the purposes of transportation, research or scavenging. They do so with specialized equipment and sometimes use bubbleships to cross thin stretches of CZs.

Equipment
In theory, divers can operate without any specialized equipment. It is possible to remain in the outer stretches of a cessation zone for as long as two hours without incurring any permanent trauma. However, since the passage of time is often the first attribute of existence that is affected for an observer within a zone, most divers utilize some kind of protective gear to avoid the dangers of remaining inside for too long.

The most common piece of equipment associated with divers is the vacustatic suit, a broad class of full-body suits that mildly stabilizes spacetime immediately around the wearer. Such suits, while effective, are costly to maintain and require vast power sources on the order of fusion cells in order to run for hours at a time. Vacustatic suits catalyze a process known as vacustasis, whereby the vacuum energy of a region of spacetime is held within parameters hospitable to human life.

Vacustatic suits do not function beyond the outermost regions of cessation zones and are not suitable for travel over more than a few kilometers. Traveling divers use vacustatic ships, or bubbleships, to travel through the zones. Bubbleships operate on the same premise as vacustatic suits, creating vacustatic bubbles to stabilize local space around the crafts. The bubbles generated by vacustatic ships are much more stable, enabling passage through some of the innermost regions of cessation zones.

Despite the prevalence of vacustatic technology, divers and bubbleship passengers are still at risk when inside a cessation zone. Vacustasis only stabilizes space enough to not be immediately fatal; prolonged or regular exposure even with vacustatic gear is deadly.