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Well, that's something I wish I didn't read this morning on HN. Did he.. survive?

• HeyLaughingBoy 9y ago
  The fourth diver was dismembered and mutilated by the blast forcing him out through the partially blocked doorway and would have died instantly No!
• duskwuff 9y ago
  > Did he.. survive? Well, let's see: √ "violently dismembered" √ "bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity" (i.e, body cut in half) √ "expulsion of all of the internal organs" Spoiler alert: no. All four divers were killed, along with one of the tenders outside the diving bell.
• bArray 9y ago
  You aren't living too long with your internal organs "explosively" removed from your chest. From the wikipedia article: >Hellevik was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the chamber explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to one atmosphere. One of the tenders, 32-year-old William Crammond of Great Britain, and all four of the divers were killed instantly; the other tender, Saunders, was severely injured.[10]
• deleted 9y ago
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