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The article says they were going for 4000m, but it was only rated for 1300m. That would imply a collapsing somewhere between the two. Also, would the body, be
by Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
The article says they were going for 4000m, but it was only rated for 1300m.
That would imply a collapsing somewhere between the two.
Also, would the body, being mostly made of water itself, really get crushed instantly? I would certainly expect the pressure to squeeze all the air out of your lungs.
I know nothing about how the body behaves under high pressure.
- kadoban 3y agoI looked up a depth to pressure calculator, at even 1300m, the pressure is 1892.67 psi. "psi" is pounds per square inch, and a human has ballpark 3000 square inches of surface area. So to get a (very) rough approximation, picture what would happen if you squeezed a human with 3000*1892 pounds of force. Or try not to picture it, because I imagine it being pretty gross.
- flangola7 3y agoMythBusters did this with a realistic (pig?) manikin. Pretty gross, yes.
- xuf 3y agoFor anyone that would want to see that: ‘Mythbusters - Compressed diver’ https://youtu.be/LEY3fN4N3D8 https://youtu.be/LEY3fN4N3D8
- justinclift 3y agoYeah. Reminds me of this underwater pressure awareness training video on youtube from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A (if you're squeemish, don't click that link) Industrial divers / welders / etc get all kinds of training to avoid that stuff, for good reason.
- j2bax 3y agoI'm sure they never imagined this video being paired with an incident like this but wow, their joyful and excited reactions (with no context of the lead up to this experiment) feels really morbid/sick. I realize they were trying to prove a myth and it worked, but still found it unsettling.
- jabbany 3y agoYou'd have to subtract about 1atm from that, but yes the sudden pressure change would be quite gross. That said, if divers are slowly "eased in" to the high pressure environment, it is actually possible to equalize pressure slowly and acclimatize. Though 1.3km would still likely be beyond the limits of that https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5110125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5110125/
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- tim333 3y agoThe watery bits of the body would be ok but the airspaces like the lungs would rapidly compress to almost nothing.
- az226 3y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEY3fN4N3D8&feature=youtu.be&start=23 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEY3fN4N3D8&feature=youtu.be&s...