AirBear

At the news conference with the Coast Guard Admiral a reporter asked if they were going to retrieve the remains of the crew.....at around 6000psi. Let see, according to Google the average human male has 74.8 square inches of body surface area. 74.8*6000psi=448,800. At nearly half a million lbs of pressure I wonder if there's even any human tissue that's recognizable.

JohnBurke

Sure enough, there he is flapping his gums, and right off the bat, in the first two minutes of his video, says enough stupidity that it's too difficult to watch more. Does the man simply thrive on being wrong, or is his selfie-drive just too strong to resist?

Without going past his attempt to compare a hydrostatic test on a steel oxygen cylinder (an explosion-resistance) to his assertions about the components of the submarine (implosion-resistance), the basis for her speculative argument is flawed at the outset. "I'm sure it was..." and there's no need to go further. I did, but threw up a little in my mouth.

I've yet to see one of his videos that isn't so badly screwed at the outset and throughout, that it doesn't disgust. At least in this respect, his latest effort does not disappoint: he is consistent. Just not in a good way.

The investigation may be terminated, now. The Juan has spoken.

That's static pressure. The dynamic pressure following an implosion will be far greater. Same static force, but with velocity.

PipeMan

So did they basically explode as soon as the implosion happened? Like as if they were sucked into a running engine? I find this whole story hysterical.

JohnBurke

It's interesting to hear people talk when they don't put any thought into what they're going to say, before they say it. That's hysterical.

METO Guido

Nitwits hurled themselves over Niagara falls for nothing but a newspaper story. Kids glue their chins to gas tanks & crank the grip wide open into the abyss by the dozen every Summer weekend from Hyannis to San Isidro. But we need an investigation to determine what went wrong when the weight of an Empire State Building made of Pb crushes a prince’s underwater goof balloon on top of the Titanic. So who’s crazy?

rickair7777

We don't need an investigation on the basis of technical oversight. Or government regulation for extreme activities. Waste of money.

They might be legally bound to investigate the loss of life, possibly to rule out manslaughter, etc. But once they check those boxes IMO .gov should not be wasting money on analysis of something they don't regulate and should not regulate.

rickair7777

They liquefied.

Stan446

Maybe not all of their body.
​​​​​​The water pressure required to theoretically crush human bone is about 22miles, roughly three times deeper than the deepest recorded parts of the ocean.

TransWorld

Hate to say it, lots of problems they created in the design and construction (I saw the video where one of the thruster replacements was installed backwards), and others who would not go due to catastrophic safety consents. As a result, I think they should be declared Darwin Award winners.

rickair7777

We're getting macabre here, but as JB pointed out that's static pressure. The implosion would have resulted in extreme dynamic forces in addition to just the water pressure. So imagine a human getting fired out of a 16" battleship gun, something along those lines.

Anything left will be tiny pieces if that.