What Happens to the Human Body When a Sub Implodes

What Happens to the Human Body When a Sub Implodes?
All creations made by man have fallen to mother nature. Submarines, the large metallic tube that descends deep into ocean depths are no exception.

The news of the Titanic-bound submarine Titan's implosion due to immense oceanic pressure at a depth of 3.8km is terrifying. To add to the terror we are looking to do a deeper dive.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the human body when a submarine implodes? It's a topic that sends shivers down your spine and leaves you in awe of the immense forces involved.

The answer is a horrifying one where the body is crushed by the water and this all happens in an instant, so fast that people don't even experience any pain. So how does this water do it? And how does it do it so fast?

You see; when a submarine implodes, it happens at a jaw-dropping speed.
Imagine the hull moving inward at an astonishing rate of approximately 1,500 miles per hour or 2,200 feet per second.

To put this into perspective, a modern nuclear submarine's hull radius is around 20 feet. Thus, the time required for complete collapse is a mind-blowing 1 millisecond.

Yes, you heard that right - everything happens in a mere blink of an eye! Anything smaller than that would get crushed even faster.

#submarine

[Oxcymoron]

No matter how many times it’s explained and in how many different ways, my mind just can’t comprehend the speed and violence of the implosion and how quickly the bodies were destroyed. The more I know about the ocean the more I’m convinced that it’s even scarier than space.

[aarenfourever]

One minute he says the missions are "extremely safe"....the next minute he says, "safety just is pure waste". Rush didn't only not listen to others, he didn't even listen to himself!

[TojiFushigoroWasTaken]

Us navy did an expedition to the bottom of the mariana trench which is 11000+ meters, discovered new species of fish and lifeforms living at that extreme conditions and got back up safely. Even the first smartphone released would be more powerful than the electronics used back in that time....the reason the 2 man sub survived such immense depths was because they went over and beyond to ensure that everything was safe and topnotch. Titan couldn't even survive 1/4 the depth because of arrogance and cost cutting

[ianmatthewkline]

“Soon to be food for the underwater creatures below… THANKS FOR WATCHING!!”

[staciebrooks]

It’s sad he couldn’t learn the lesson Titantic taught us. Respect the ocean, put your pride aside and take every necessary precaution… especially when he was responsible for other lives.

[andrewbako]

The implosion is not the terrifying part. It's all the precursory noises they most likely heard and other signs of the impending doom knowing there's no way out. You are trapped and are about to die. An implosion at that depth is a millisecond, you can't even comprehend it. These people all choose to get in this sub and take this risk. I do feel quite sad for the young man who only wanted to be with his dad becuase of Father's Day, but really did not want to go.

[richstarx]

Nature literally erased those 5 guys out of existence

[jeanlucdrion]

My real sadness is for the young man. Especially if he was pressured to go along on the voyage to the deep. Now all of them gel and particles for what lives below. If the older adults want to go, fine. Leave the young man out of your experiments and risktaking with his life.

[dawwgf]

I have great appreciation for the contradictory soothing music whilst describing such unadulterated horror

[scasey]

The terrifying part is the 20 minutes before the implosion when the warning system for pressure vessel failure activated. The failure of emergency systems to ensure a rapid ascent and the gradual realization that all previous warnings for a halt to operations were 100% correct. Rush must have realized that his own hubris would cost four additional lives as a father & son asked “will we live”? Hopefully Rush’s final thoughts were “God forgive me”.

[Steve_in_NJ]

I learned a lot but why did I watch this before bedtime?

[VIPAH]

When I went scuba diving about 15 meters deep, that was enough to feel my ears kind of pop, head started to feel a bit dizzy, obviously the deeper I went the more pressure I was feeling. But I can't imagine the force felt at the abyss level of the ocean 😢

[CarbonGlassMan]

I fly FPV drones and have between 25-40 milliseconds of latency between what the drone's camera sees and what my eyes see in the FPV goggles. I can't notice any delay at all in 30 to 40 milliseconds. The implosion takes 1 millisecond.

[Imustfly]

It wouldn't be 18, 000, 000 PSI, as the author states at 5:28, but rather a total crushing force equal to 18, 000, 000 pounds when the pressure outside the hull, is multiplied by the average of 3000 square inches of surface area of the human body. The PSI available cannot be higher than the exterior pressure of the surrounding ocean (roughly 6000 psi), but the TOTAL crushing force as applied to a surface area of 3000 square inches (the human body), would be around 18, 000, 000 pounds. They never knew they had been killed, ...and simply proceeded towards the light, as all of us will do at some point.

[kiki]

As grisly as this sounds, I was hoping they died instantly. The younger son said he was afraid to go, but did so to appease his father. That's the part that bothered me the most.

[royrice]

Liquified humans dissolved in the ocean in less than a second. 😳

[tomgardner]

Dude crushed a Bud Light can in his hands. The only good use of a Bud Light can.

[nuclearbum]

And as we speak the next fool is prepping their sub for the titanic trip...the thought of being locked in the rest room gives me chills how in hell could I be bolted in a tin can and go 2.5 miles deep in the ocean to look at a rusted 100 plus year old ship wreck ..poor people do live longer

[williamgallop]

The shockwave might be the reason of why the window was not in place, it was blown away by the force of the shockwave.

[amadeo_serrano]

A pretty decent example of a submersible implosion is shown near the end of the movie "The Abyss". In fact, watching the entire sequence, I was struck by the thought that it may well have accurately portrayed the sequence of events with the Titan