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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Now I’m generally curious now that can see the it. That thing is pretty much like a crushed soda can. What really happens to the bodies tho? At depth, The tube goes poof and implodes in milliseconds but do the bodies implode too or they just crushed in the pop can.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That depends on what happened. If the whole structure collapsed instantly, they are probably crushed by debris and a shockwave. But if there was a “leak” and the pressure equalized without complete destruction maybe the lungs are compressed, ribs broken and eardrums torn. All depending on the speed of equalization. Maybe also bones break (because water is compressible) but the bag of meat and blood should remain intact. So finding a body would help to reconstruct what happened. But I doubt they will find one before hungry animals do.

[–] QHC 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not possible for anything but immediate implosion at those depths. Even a microscopic leak would instantly turn into a beach.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain 7 points 1 year ago

Even a microscopic leak would instantly turn into a beach.

I love the beach!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why? What should lead to that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It wouldn't really crush like a soda can. That's what a steel submarine would do, but this was made of carbon fibre which would shatter into many pieces while the titanium ends just fell off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The bodies can't implode; the lungs can/will collapse but that is pretty much the least of the issues. Even if the bodies aren't pulverized by the collapsing sub, the water will hit like a hammer traveling at supersonic speeds. So probably a combination of rendering into mincemeat, dismemberment, and scattering of the human remains would result from such an implosion. A destruction on par with being hit by a bomb at ground zero.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They would’ve been instantaneously turned to ash. The vessel temperature at the time of breach would be about 5000 celsius. About the temperature of the sun. Whatever was left would be oozed out the cracks like play-doh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That phenomenon would be so fast, there would be little chance for the bodies to heat up with it. On the other hand, the combination of superheated air and rapidly increasing pressure would thoroughly destroy any body.

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

Praying Mantis Shrimp agrees with this comment.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I read that from the compression the air ignites so they probably burnt to ashes in milliseconds.
But I might got it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't know if that kind of temperature lasts more than microseconds, so that might not be enough time for much combustion to happen.

In any case, the forces from a 300 atm pressure differential would mash the people to goo in the blink of an eye. Like being inside an exploding bomb. Except exploding in. They're fish food.

EDIT: There are reports that the Coast Guard recovered "presumed human remains".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/28/titan-sub-debris-implosion-wreckage-oceangate

What could possibly be left of them after that implosion?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What could possibly be left of them after that implosion?

Clothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe a fingernail or a bone fragment...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bone fragments, ligaments, and any other tissues that deal with compression and torsion.