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Crew of Titan sub believed to be dead after 'catastrophic implosion' (www.bbc.com)

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The US Coast Guard is giving a press conference following discovery of debris from the sub.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mythbusters - Diving Suit Decompression (NSFW - gore)
Now imagine this, but deeper down, where the water pressure is even higher

Edit: Mythbusters - Tanker Implosion (SFW)

Another good video for perspective. The pressure the sub was going under was 519x GREATER than the pressure difference in this video

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Video #1 looks like an awful way to go - I thought I'd read somewhere that it would be somewhat instant and the meat man suit looked far longer than instant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, the entire implosion takes a little longer than an instant; but the death itself would be fractions of a second. The "body" in that suit was dead long before the blood started falling out its head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This was a controlled depressurization (they used a release valve and let the pressure creep in). This shows what the pressure can do over time. Now image that be happening instant because the structure holding back the pressure failed all at once.