I think you can spawn one in, but to my knowledge there is no way to get the blueprints for the PRAWN suit depth module in the current version of the game.

I got to the part of the story where I think they were supposed to unlock the depth modules, but it didn't unlock because I think it's buggy. Therefore I used the console command "creative" which switched the game over to creative mode. That unlocked the blueprints which allowed me to build prawn suit depth modules at the moonpool and modification station. I can now go to 1000m depth. Use the console command "survival" or "freedom" to revert back to normal.

Any updates on this with the Feb 2020 update? Looking for Mk 2 Prawn Depth Module. Rather not spawn one but still seems like that’s the only way.

There doesn't seem to be one yet. >!Probably because for now you can complete everything story-related without the prawn suit.!<

No, cause the counter is your depth below sea level.

Wait are we talking Subnautica or Satisfactory

Lost my seamoth with both Aurora mods after a reaper grabbed it (I had swam away from it in blind terror) and dropped it off midair. It just hovered there. As I’m trying to figure out how to get it, I hear a “whoomph” and look to see it’s just blown up. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this😑. Well, good thing is I found blueprints for the mods, built a new one, and got all my progress back

Bro installed the ascension module by mistake.

Who said Alterra didn't make helicopters?

This! When you get in will it fall? Will it turn into a flying seamoth? Only way to know is to find out!

I didn't save sadly. I'll probably just restart. It might be faster to raid the aurora again than it would be to get the moon pool and vehicle upgrade console fragments. Pretty sure I'm about to be killed by that reaper off the stern anyway

Hey it didn’t say if it was for the sea or space

+200 altitude, -200 depth

bro got that -200m depth module

Make it your goal to get a laser cutter and depth module, you’re definitely gonna need to go deeper than the seamoth’s default depth

More story things will happen as you continue exploring, basically.

Has anything sunlight related happened yet? Like an odd sunbeam?

You can find a mk1 depth module inside the Aurora's Sea Moth bay. You'll eventually get radio messages that point you towards the story.

If you need laser cutter fragments look >!in the Grassy Plateaus for big wrecks!<

You... don’t need a depth module to get to the landing site. It’s on dry land, you can just drive straight to it.

It might be a bug with the slot extender mod. You could try different slots and see if that works.

That’s awesome. I love this game. I took a hiatus as well and came back and have really surged forward with expansion and the story. I only just got to the deepest parts a few days ago. I love the feelings of discovery coupled with occasional sheer terror this game delivers.

Have you explored the aurora yet?

You can go up to 1700 meters deep

Man, I really wish I could re-do that felling during my first playthrough, the excitement, the exploring new places, being extremely terrified of everything... Even on hard I never really get those feelings again. Such an awesome game. Can't wait for subzero to be finished.

You can go a lot deeper than that (the blue balls) and you have a hell of an adventure ahead of you. In fact you'll go just deep enough to find something beautiful but need other tools go actually visit.

TAKE BEACONS WITH YOU because as you go deeper, you'll want to mark things you'll go back to later. The seamoth will let you explore widely and before you go down with a big sub and its little friend, you want to know your way around.

It's something I wish I'd done when going deep my first time.

While the probe does fire in a different direction every loop, It will always fire away from giants deep, Otherwise we would easily have youtube footage of the probe itself in the water of giants deep. but since it always fires away from giants deep, the module is always propelled in the opposite direction towards giants deep. it makes sense that the nomai would program the probe launcher to work this way to avoid wasted loops.

I always assumed the module at the bottom of Giants Deep was the one that sank when they were first creating the cannon. I thought they built a new one. Then the one in space was always completely destroyed each loop because of the same hardware failure inherently present when too much power was supplied.

That makes sense except that would mean two statues would need to be linked to the probe tracking module.

It's always caught by the gravity of Giant's Deep.

We know with enough force and object can break through the current without hitting a tornado. 

I'd speculate something that heavy falling from orbit just smashes through the current then sinks and is unaffected by the electric field.

I must be a different breed of stupid because I thought they built the Probe Tracking Module as a separate thing inside of Giants Deep to begin with 🤦 I never considered it would be another part of what was orbiting the planet

Other people already answered that it's pulled in bygravity, but it's not often during the course of normal gameplay that you realize just how strong Giant's Deep's gravity is. You can be standing on the ice chunks around Dark Bramble and when it swings by Giant's Deep the gravity will actually yank you off.

I could be wrong, because I'm not sure this is modeled in game, but the deeper you go, because of the pressure, the more catastrophic the damage will be. So, depth is more a factor than intensity of the depth charge.

Water is largely incompressible, so pressure wave should fall off with the distance squared regardless of depth.

There are multiple effects at play.

In shallow depth, the explosion creates a bubble that creates an additional (or multiple) shockwave(s) when it collapses, compounding the effect.

Going deeper, the hull is already under stress, so it getting hit by a shock wave causes more damage than it would've in more shallow depth. Also, if you get hit and take in water, it becomes very difficult to maintain neutral buoyancy due to the high water pressure.

Ultimately, since the force drops off with distance squared, you want to be as far away as possible from the depth charge. And that is best accomplished by diving deep, since you put more distance between you and the ASW ship, which decreases the chance of them dropping an accurate pattern.

It was standard doctrine to dive deep when avoiding depth charges, so unless the OKM was wrong I guess the positive effects of that outweighed the negatives.

In-game, the escorts are blind and incompetent, and the depth charges do very little damage, so you can get away with staying close to the surface.

I’d say they get stronger, you gotta think right? The deeper you go the more pressure is put on your boat, the steel bends and flexes and while depth charges are a straight up kill if it’s a direct hit, they also can rupture the hull through indirect pressure which will either cause you to sink to the bottom, or blow ballast and charge toward the surface where either you’ll be machine gunned down or captured like U-505

Was asked in a submarine subreddit a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/submarines/s/5uWx67x96m

They answer it better than I can.

Some interesting attempts of the Kriegsmarine:

"Blasting attempts

Blasting tests with 125 kg charges on U 78 in August and December 1942 resulted in the following:

At a distance of 250 m, the scale of the gyroscopic daughter in the tower broke. At 180 m the lights, the diving alarm system and the rudder angle indicator in the tower failed. At 135 m, the revolution indicator Bb in the tower, engine voltmeter and ammeter 1 & 2, several lamps in the E and diesel room, several fuses for the gyrocompass and the water level glass for drinking water cell 2 broke. At 85 m, many lamps in the boat failed, especially the lighting in battery I. In addition, the diesel pressure reducer, gyro and daughter rose as well as the fuses for the auxiliary bilge and trim pump failed out of. The rudder angle indicator in the tower was bent and the pointer on the 200 m depth indicator fell off. The impact accelerations were over 1000 g ≈ 9810 m/s², the impact distances were only a maximum of 2.5 mm. After these tests, the boats were better insulated from shocks. The battery boxes that previously often broke and leaked were given a soft rubber bag instead of the previous soft rubber lining, which leaked in over 50% of the box breaks, which prevented the battery acid from leaking in 95% of all registered box breaks."

German Wikipedia.

Sadly no further information about the depth, but interesting which Power those explosions had underwater.

Gotta put it in the Seamoth's upgrade slot.

if you’re facing the front of the seamoth, on the right side I believe, there’s a little area on the side that you can open to put modules into

You should get it unlocked automatically once you build a Vehicle Upgrade Console in your moonpool. No need to find a fragment/databox.

The real issue is getting your hands on the nickel to build it.

If you still need the blueprint for the Vehicle Upgrade Console, there's a couple places you can get that. Easiest one is just to the E/NE in the nearby grassy plateau area. There's a Large wreck kind of at the north-ish end of the plateau (about 300m NE of the shallows geyser). The databox you want is deep inside, on the lowest level. There's a gap you can sneak in through if the Aurora hasn't blown up yet, but otherwise you'll need a laser cutter to get to it.

It’s free after building the prawn suit with the vehicle upgrade console