Definitely not the worst way to go, all things considered. I don't imagine there was much in the way of warning before they were instantaneously pulped.
Certainly preferable to the fate of poor Truls Hellevik in the Byford Dolphin Diving Bell Incident.
Really puts it into perspective when you consider the Byford Dolphin accident took place at 9 atmospheres. The crew of the Titan were dealt 340-400 atmospheres of pressure.
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I don't imagine Truls knew much about what was going on before he was turned into salsa either.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 15:44,
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General consensus appears to be
that the carbon fibre cylinder would have failed by shattering, leaving the occupants in a rapidly collapsing bubble of air. That bubble, and its occupants, would have been superheated to plasma in about 20ms by the pressure. To quote one commenter “they went from biology to physics“.
The human nervous system has a delay of about 200ms so they wouldn’t have known a thing about it.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 23 Jun 2023, 21:12,
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