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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still better than being stuck in there for four days as their air supply ran out, which is what people thought might have happened before the wreckage was found.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would have been sufficiently terrifying... You'd be hearing the hull pop, groan, and creak, then the laptops used to drive the boat start lighting up with "DANGER! HULL INTEGRITY FAILURE!", followed by Stockton frantically grabbing that video game controller to drop the ballast, do an emergency blow, but it's already too late... You don't know how long before you get turned into shark chum, but the suspense....

[–] wazoobonkerbrain 4 points 1 year ago

I did not suggest that the scenario that I described was the worst case scenario. Another possibility was that the craft could have gotten turned on its end, e.g. after getting snagged on the wreck, or on other debris. Imagine five people piled on top of each other in a vertical tube asphyxiating over four days.