The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.

  • ColonelSanders
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    171 year ago

    I’m ngl, I’m kind of morbidly curious what, if any, remains are there when a sub at this depth implodes. Will there even be any bodies that are retrievable?

    • Vchat20
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      201 year ago

      As sad and morbid it is to think about, there’s probably not anything left other than a fine mist disbursed through the ocean.

      I’m reminded of the one episode of Mythbusters where they tested an old school dive suit at depth with loss of pressure. Not the exact same situation, but consider they are MUCH deeper than this was. And in that test on the show, their human analogue looked like it got finely blended into a pile of mush inside the suit. The pressures that deep are no joke.

      As another comparison, I’m sure someone with actual numbers could compare the PSI at the depth they went missing to what is put through from a hydraulic press and just go watch any video on the hydraulic press YT channel for comparison.

    • Phanatik
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      51 year ago

      My very brief searches into how pressure affects objects at depth tells me that any pockets of air inside a container (like a human body) would cause the container to implode.

      In summary, no.

    • SporkBomber
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      There are some videos online of Delta P and it’s affects. Most are not NSFL, but it illustrate this better below is a video of a railroad tanker car that was drained of liquid but not vented:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM

      That’s at 1ATM maximum. At 13,000ft there 500ATM. A large delta P has no problem pulping just about anything given the chance for catastrophic failure.