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Originally Posted by Cycling76er
You can read all about the Byford-Dolphin Accident here:
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index...phin-accident/
"The results were immediately and horrific. The capsule violently decompressed and blasted away from the trunk, killing Crammond and severely injuring Saunders, while inside the chamber the pressure dropped instantaneously from 9 atmospheres to one in an instant. Hellevik, crouching in the trunk, was blown apart, scattering body parts across the rig deck. One observer described finding his liver “complete as if dissected out of the body,” while part of his spine was found 10 meters above the chamber on the rig derrick. The other divers in the chamber fared little better. Autopsies of Coward, Lucas, and Berergsen revealed lumps of white fat clogging their arteries and veins – proteins which had cooked and precipitated as their blood flash-boiled. Mercifully, all four divers are believed to have died instantly and painlessly."
Edit: I guess this would be the opposite as it's rapid decompression and not rapid compression. But, I guess just reverse the process to figure what that would do to your meat skeleton. |
As gory as it sounds, it would be a lot better than sitting at the bottom of the ocean for 4 days in pitch black waiting for oxygen to run out. That would be horrifying. Like being buried alive.