Posted on 06/27/2023 10:58:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An old clip from the Discovery Channel show “MythBusters” demonstrating how a deep-sea explorer could implode in a depressurized diving suit has gone viral after the Titanic sub disaster.
The 2009 clip has racked up more than three-quarters of a million views after being posted Thursday, when it was discovered that the five passengers had died aboard a Titanic wreckage-bound submersible that imploded.
In the show’s science experiment, a human-shaped mannequin was recreated from pig parts including bones, muscle, fat, skin and guts. It was then sunk about 300 feet underwater — where pressure is roughly nine times greater than at sea level — and its diving suit was depressurized.
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She’s from my town, I know he father.
Instant jelly. Bones fragment and tissues lose their shape.
If one thinks about it, as repulsive as it sounds, it is far more merciful than days of slowly running out of air with other panicked people in a feces/urine filled (and probably vomit) tube knowing that you are going to die.
They had as much awareness of what was happening as a person at ground zero of a nuclear blast and likely little to no warning that anything was wrong. At those pressures, with carbon fiber and epoxy, there is no elasticity for any kind of pressure hull failure.
There will be no recovery of a “body”. They have never found human remains inside the Titanic.
Favorite show for my boys when they were younger.
Damn! Those Myth Busters guys did an amazing job with those pig parts including bones, muscle, fat, skin and guts. That’s very realistic.
She’s a welder, Al.
300 feet ain’t 12,000.
One engineer pointed out that the extreme compression of the air inside would raise the temperature to thousands of degrees. (Boyle’s Law, you know.) The bodies would flash-burn. (A wag called it dieseling.)
At least it’s quick.
Interesting to see how gleeful they were that their experiment had the desired result - I guess they weren’t thinking about what the effects on a living person would have been, or maybe they would have been a bit more somber. (Yes, I know it’s all for ratings...)
Look!
I learned another new thing today!
That’s 2 in the last 10 minutes!
Well played!
Sounds like a swimmingly good idea for capital punishment.
Can someone post a link to the actual Myth Busters video? I like the Post well enough content wise, but when go there get so many ads and junk I can barely see the page.
This Boyle’s Law compression heating scenario is not exactly correct.
Yes, the volume of air inside will be heated as stated.
BUT the volume of this heated air after this compression will be reduced drastically.
The interior volume of the Titan was roughly 1000Ft^3 (The air volume was 1000Ft^3 less the volume of the five inhabitants, which we shall ignore for this calculation).
The water pressure at 12,500’ would be about 400 bar (400 atmospheres).
The 1000ft^3 air volume would have been compressed to about 2.5ft^3, and violently mixed with the 1000ft^3 of seawater that intruded in milliseconds into the craft. Deep seawater has an average temperature of about 4C / 39F. And water has a great heat carrying capacity.
There would have been no noticeable heating of anything by the violently turbulent mixing of the compressed air with the frigid seawater that filled the remaining parts of the craft.
Lessons learned:
Getting crushed to death in 30 seconds at a depth of 300 feet is less humane than 30 milliseconds at 12,000 feet.
Fifty year old white guys understand differential pressure beats marketing and salesmanship.
If burial is possible burial at sea or cremation is recommended over open casket.
Nature is equal opportunity in eliminating the foolish regardless of wealth.
The passengers and crew on this submarine are undoubtedly dead and from the physics of the implosion at these depths are utterly obliterated. This endless speculation about exactly how they died or whether something of them might be recovered is getting tiresome. Let them rest in peace and end this crap.
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