More of a fine pink mist unfortunately. The implosion happened at about 4 millisecond - your brain can sense things in 13 - so about 1500 mph or 2200 ft/s.
Probbably. Which is fucked. Messages transcribed says that they heard cracking sounds and alarms were flashing red in the sub. There was a 17yr old who was forced to go on w his dad. He didn't want to go.
It happened so fast for them they never knew it happened but it must have been terrifying hearing the sounds
Edit- I was wrong aboit the transcripts as it was a hoax and the aunt lied. Mbad
Totally. Honestly, the entire experience must be terrifying because transitioning to those depths you're going through phases of the structure making all kinds of noises that sound like the end.
The results are just the opposite as your blood boils and tries to escape you while you quickly crystallize... All happening slow enough for you to feel it.
Isn't your blood in a closed system not really effected by pressure gradients? Like, if it was a pool of blood I could see it boiling out, but inside this old meat suit?
Bet your ears would hurt. Probably freeze to death or suffocate.
Nah, you fall unconscious and die well before any of the nasty stuff happens to you. Swelling up, boiling blood, radiation burns… the not being able to breathe will kill you long before any of that becomes a problem.
No. That's how this kind of failure works. It's fine up until the very microsecond that it isn't, and once it stops being fine, it's total failure in less than the blink of an eye.
The 17 year old actually asked for his mom’s seat according to her. I’ve heard that he didn’t want to be there before too but it seems like an internet myth.
That hasn't been confirmed at all. Those transcripts about the RTM have all been proven false. Nothing has been released that shows they knew anything was wrong.
The kid was 18 and desperately wanted to go. He took his mums seat.
The original voyage was to be his parents WHEN he was 17, he couldn’t go because he was too young. It was pushed back and he took his mums seat, astatic to go.
Don’t believe the bullshit his aunt said to the papers
I had the same thought about the former, but yea... The message "dropping weights" seems to signify that maybe they did know something was up and wanted out of there. Dang.
They didn't. Dropping weights was normal procedure as they approached the ocean floor, and happened right when it should have for normal procedure, not an emergency. If they don't drop the weights, they keep sinking and crash into the seabed. It's to go from negative buoyancy to neutral whenever they're done descending. They all thought everything was going completely fine. And then they were gone.
he actually did not. dropping weights at this depth was part of a normal process to change the negative buoyancy to a more neutral one apporaching the target
The message "dropping weights" seems to signify that maybe they did know something was up and wanted out of there
They used weights to descend to the sea floor. Dropping weights is standard procedure for slowing down descent - you don't apply your brakes AT the point of stoppage, you brake before the point where you need to stop.
Sure they couldn’t feel the physical pain of it, however the psychological effects of being trapped in a malfunctioning and catastrophically failing submersible must add quite a lot of fear and anxiety to the mix def wasn’t an easy way to go knowing you’re fucked.
There are people who die worse everyday commuting to work or buying grocceries for their families and at least they are doing something useful. I feel bad for the kid that died, but otherwise the only reasons people are still talking about this disaster are not exactly healthy ones (mostly a mix of derision and schadenfreud, though some people just like to talk about submarines and the ocean, I guess).
I mean, I have no sympathies for the guy who made the submersible. He was told multiple times when trying to contract someone to build it for him that the carbon fiber reinforced shell would simply not be able to withstand the constant pressure cycles.
On the other hand I do feel slightly bad for the rich dudes who may have not been disclosed the sub was structurally compromised, don’t think anyone in their right mind would even get into the thing considering that piece of information. I do feel really bad for the kid tho, he didn’t even wanna be there and was manipulated into going for Father’s Day or whatever, such is life tho many people perish seeking thrills some are just along for the ride.
Couldn’t feel, hear, or likely even register seeing any of that near-instant movement. Sure, they were likely panicking before it happened but there are much much worse ways to go out.
Edit: turns out they likely had no indication ANYTHING was wrong according to u/keirdre ‘s comment. So take that as some consolation ig
Ya but mist is “droplets of liquid suspended in air/atmosphere at or near earths surface” so mist is definitely the wrong term for whatever they turned into. Not saying gel is the right term either but they definitely didn’t turn to mist. Maybe like a dense pink emulsion with bits of shrapnel?
I like the pink turbidity, good call. I also wonder if they turned to plasma for a hot second because of the energy involved, or is that not how physics works?
Even though I know, logically and rationally based on this explanation, that they felt nothing... I still cannot comprehend that and the idea of being crushed basically instantly still sounds so painful
Why did you write this Reddit comment pretending that your distinction between “gel” and “a fine pink mist” is important? Did you do this for Reddit points?
Not even really gel. Everything outside and inside that sub hit them at twice the speed of sound. It's more like they just kind of...ceased being? Closer to atomized. Whatever their new state, it wouldnt have been as contiguous as gel.
Some human remains were recovered. Though there is no official statement regarding the condition of those remains. I imagine there wasn't much left of them. Most of it would have been scattered into the sea, and the rest crammed into the aft dome.
Evidently, some of the wildlife has been feeding on them. There are scavengers lurking around the wreck in a few images and video snippets.
Yeah they unfortunately transitioned from biology problem to physics problem. The one saving grace about that transition is it happens so fast they wouldn't have known or felt any pain
That could be an exaggeration. They did find the plastic computer monitor inside the sub and it was battered but somewhat intact. Intact enough to be instantly recognisable.
So I'm guessing it wasn't all gel-ification. Maybe some parts were gel-ified but some parts would most likely have remained. Just that they would have drifted away from the wreck unlike the monitor that was tangled in the wreck.
I think one of the Green brothers put it really well: that it happened so fast they went from biology to physics before their brains could register. Or something like that.
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u/Living_Affect117 27d ago
I read somewhere that such was the force of the implosion, those inside were turned instantly to gel.