Don’t cry, you are projecting yourself into their imaginary experience. Sure it is tragic but doubtful they experienced much misery. It probably didn’t take long. A catastrophic implosion would be a few seconds maybe 12 at the very most. Not enough time to take in a breath to hold. Imagine a soda can. It resists being crushed until it starts being crushed and then it happens all at once. They may have seen a crack form and some water seeping in but they wouldn’t have had enough time to say oh shit after that.
No, at the depths they were operating the implosion would have been on the order of a just few milli-seconds.
They were instantly rendered into Krill, at best.
Actually, I was on a ship going from Nova Scotia to NC and we hit a huge spring squall. 30-50 ft waves at night for over 8 hrs but I lost consciousness for much of it. I do remember thinking that I was going to die and was terrified at being tossed into that ocean. I know how unforgiving the cold dark sea is.
And my husband heard that they may have died on the first day which is some consolation. I am just at a loss at how the CEO powered on through with incompetence at almost every single level of his company from the product to the staff of ‘inspirational’ wokesters.
The only thing I can get is that he had his eyes on the prize and crossed his fingers that all would be good.