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What's also terrifying is that the buoyancy tanks, the big tanks at the top, ate filled with gasoline

• jaggederest 3y ago
  It's not as terrifying a couple miles away from atmospheric oxygen. Gasoline is a perfect flotation fluid, since it is just as incompressible as water but only about 75% of the density.
  • iancmceachern 3y ago
    Indeed, but it doesn't stay down there forever. It also comes back up an lives the bulk of its life up here.
    • jaggederest 3y ago
      On the ship, right next to literal tons of bunker fuel :)
      • iancmceachern 3y ago
        Which is then transferred to the bathyscape at the surface no? Not at depth?