Back in the days of the old "dive suits", circa 1920's, occasionally there would be an accident that the suit would leak and then when they hauled it up they would find the man essentially stuffed inside the helmet............“Mauger added that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressure”
I wonder if implosion at this depth and pressure even leaves recognizable bodies for retrieval and burial? Probably aren’t many prior known cases for comparison. RIP.
The vessel reportedly “shattered”. Imagine millions of carbon fiber shards, all directed inwards by 6000psi over every square inch of vessel.
They were shredded. Likely nothing left but bits.
Back in the days of the old "dive suits", circa 1920's, occasionally there would be an accident that the suit would leak and then when they hauled it up they would find the man essentially stuffed inside the helmet............I rather doubt that there are any body parts left.
The good news (if there is any) for this grieving woman is that her nephew didn’t “gasp for breath.” I suspect they were dead before their brains could even process that something bad was happening. When your time is up, going instantaneously is probably the best one can hope for.
“I wonder if implosion at this depth and pressure even leaves recognizable bodies for retrieval and burial? Probably aren’t many prior known cases for comparison.”
Probably only enough left for a small fish to nibble at...
I just read an article that said the explosion in the sub would immediately incinerate all the bodies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65934887
One gallon of water weighs a little over 8 pounds (sea water would be a bit heavier due to salinity). A typical one gallon water jug is about 10" high.
At 12,000' below the surface that would be like having the weight of 14,400 gallon jugs stacked on top of your head, or using the conservative 8 lb x gallon figure, 115,200 lbs. (57.6 tons) pressing straight down on your head in the area sized the base of a milk jug...but that doesn't even paint the full picture. Even if that weight was a solid (i.e, 57.6 tons of ice) the body would be crushed, but water is of course a fluid, so that same pressure is not just pushing down on top of their head, but simultaneously compressing the body from pretty much every direction.
I suspect there is very little left of their bodies that is even remotely recognizable as human tissue.
“I wonder if implosion at this depth and pressure even leaves recognizable bodies for retrieval and burial?”
There were no bodies left after the Thresher implosion nor the Scorpion loss.
The theory is that at that depth and pressure, bodies are immediately vaporized. In other words, there is nothing left to retrieve.
Pressure is .433 pounds per foot. At 12, 500 feet, 6, 000 PSI. At that pressure it takes 2 nanoseconds to implode and 4 nanoseconds for the body to sense pain. Thankfully, the crew did not have time to sense a problem.
Not from what I’ve gleaned from similar accidents
I read about one guy sucked through a ten inch port hole
You can do that gory math
Maybe the folks i pinged know better
If not impacted by structure constraints I’d imagine the 5800 pounds per inch destroys your corpse
I’ve seen a styrofoam big gulp at that depth reduced in perfect shape to a thimble size
Pretty destructive
Promoters of descents by submersible to the wreck site can now promote two wrecks for the price of one specials.
Implosion under such pressures forces air etc out of all voids in the body, most notably lungs, but down to the gaps in bones where the marrow is. They’re an organic soup at best.