Old ‘MythBusters’ video reveals what happens to human body during deep-sea implosion

[mystery-ak]

 Old ‘MythBusters’ video reveals what happens to human body during deep-sea implosion
By Jesse O’Neill   
June 27, 2023 10:09am

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.

Over a gruesome roughly 30 seconds, the rapid change in air pressure forced the meaty contents of the fake diver into the helmet as the suit collapsed in on itself.

In reality, the reenactment has very little in common with the last moments of the doomed Titan sub passengers, who authorities have said were instantaneously killed at much greater depths and under much higher pressure.

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[Kamaji]

That video doesn't detail what would have happened to the people in the submersible.

This is a more accurate description:  Here's What Happened to the Bodies When the Titanic Submersible Imploded

Matt Vespa
June 26, 2023

In very summary terms, it was all over for them in a millisecond:

All five men died in less than a millisecond, possibly a nanosecond. To put this into perspective, the video below shows how fast that is. The time it takes for the human body to process pain is about 100 milliseconds. It takes you 13 milliseconds to process “visual imagery.” You can see where this is going: none of these guys knew what happened to them. There was no suffering. And it is well because how they died is brutal.

They didn't feel a thing.  Also, since the interior was very briefly heated to about the temperature of the surface of the Sun, what little of them was left was almost certainly incinerated.

[bigheadfred]

I did a search with this: Was the missing sub at the depth of the Titanic?

This was at the top:

The user query is not very clear, but it seems to be asking about the depth of a submarine that went missing near the Titanic wreckage. According to the web results, the submersible disappeared in a portion of the ocean with a depth of roughly 13,000 feet1, which is the same depth as the Titanic wreckage2. This depth is much deeper than the deepest ever underwater rescue, which was at 1,575 feet2. (bolding theirs)

Does that answer my question?

[DB]

Well... There is some BS swirling around in there.

That it "could have happened in a nanosecond" is complete B.S. It takes about 10 ns for light to travel 10'. 10' is about half the distance of the length of the sub.

It didn't implode at the speed of light or anywhere near that.

[mystery-ak]

That video doesn't detail what would have happened to the people in the submersible.

This is a more accurate description:  Here's What Happened to the Bodies When the Titanic Submersible Imploded

Matt Vespa
June 26, 2023

In very summary terms, it was all over for them in a millisecond:

They didn't feel a thing.  Also, since the interior was very briefly heated to about the temperature of the surface of the Sun, what little of them was left was almost certainly incinerated.

Thanks for posting that....

[DB]

Thanks for posting that....

It has some "issues" regarding the timing...

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The people on the original Titanic suffered more than these folks.

[Wingnut]

Titanic. Submersible.  The results are the same.   Fish food.