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It looks like ... well, at least three of the sub-units still appear to be in a salable condition, and more than that, one of them had another component mounted between the sub-unit and the grate. With the grate gone, it looks as if you could just disconnect it and take it with you ... but when you try to do just that, you find that the unit is still mounted to something. You crane your head a bit, and just manage to steal a glimpse of what looks like a bolt, affixing it into the adjacent sub-unit. Damn it.
Having spent enough time on the sub-units of the cleaner/clearer, you turn your focus back to the grate. While you have cut the thing loose, it is still floating up there. You cut the grate in half - something that would have been much easier to do if you had thought to do it while it was still anchored - and then with the integrated magnet on the head of the torch, you draw both pieces through the mounting collar, then shove them further down the intake towards the mouth. Inevitably, both of them get caught up on your boots, so you end up having to stomp them down - difficult to do while floating - only for the damned things get caught up on your towed toolbox. Whatever. You just have to hope that they get left behind when you start moving. On that thought, you turn your attention back up the intake, and moving very deliberately, you draw yourself up to and then through the mounting collar where the mesh grate sat. It is tight, but with the sleek new-model suit, you are able to make it through without any real issue.
However, just as you have gotten far enough to get your boots clear, you find yourself faced with another obstruction. And this one is much more substantial than the grate. It is a filter. Probably not the primary, but regardless, it is large. And it is also in your way. It takes you some time, but you get the schematic out again. It is clearly labeled where the intake passes through the hull on the way to the bulkhead where the desalinator sits, but there is no indication where the grate or this filter are in the intake. You get the idea to look at the surroundings of the intake on the schematic, figuring that if this is an inline filter on the system, then the outer diameter of the filter would logically be greater, significantly greater, than the outer diameter of the intake. That space would have to be accounted for in the schematic, so if you could find a spot along the intake where there was an unexplained space in the hull, an abscess, then logically, you would be able to figure out where you are.
The schematic is not particularly detailed, but you find three such spaces. One of which is where you estimate you are in the hull - and that is all well and good. What isn't well and good is that there are two other spaces. One is by the mouth of the intake, so it obviously is not a filter, as you would have passed it by now - but the third one, further along, <span class="mu-i">could</span> be.
