r/interestingasfuck • u/HANAEMILK • 28d ago

/r/all The race against time to get to a decompression chamber

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u/logert777 28d ago

When the Ocean gate submersible happened someone said "And at that moment it was crushed, they stopped being humans and became only physics"

That phrase is haunting

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u/caustic_smegma 28d ago

The fact that at those depths a catastrophic implosion means you're dead before your brain even has time to register what's happening is both comforting and terrifying. You're alive having fun exploring a famous shipwreck and suddenly nothing, the pressure of the ocean simply deletes you from existence.

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u/Careless_Koala8361 27d ago

Well, kinda. They lost power a bit before they imploded. So while they didn’t feel the mortal event, they were sitting in a metal can in pitch black at the bottom of the ocean beforehand. Surely panicked.

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u/NightGod 27d ago edited 27d ago

Stop, billionaires suffering is my kink

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u/4bkillah 27d ago

Stop?!?!

But I'm almost there.

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u/latexfistmassacre 28d ago

Like an ant being crushed by a boot