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.
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...)
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.
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.