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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
A lot of my interest is in the extreme conditions...so I did some napkin calculations.
In the case of a rapid catastrophic breach at the depth of titanic, assuming adiabatic compression, the air in the submersible would be almost immediately heated to over 1000 degrees C as it was compressed to less than 1/350 its initial volume. The amount of energy transferred from ocean to air in that process would exceed the energy in a kilo of TNT. By my napkin calculations, over 5 MJ.
That would not leave much intact, either bodies or carbon fiber.
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Do you get an explosion though? Is adiabatic pressurization correct when you get into the supercritical fluids of both air and water?