How a whale can dive so deep.

[mowens]

There was a conversation about this in the missing sub thread. Apparently, since our bodies are made primarily of water and water is "uncompressable", our flesh would not be turned into goo at extreme depths. What would kill us, aside from the no air thing, is that anywhere there is an air pocket would be collapsed. Lungs would collapse and ribs would brake.

In this case, the carban fiber would do the most damage collapsing around them.

Whales are able to do it because they can collapse their lungs and ribs and have no air pockets. This video is very informative. The part I was just talking about starts at about 4:20.

[Incogneeto]

Thanks I already Knew this but didn't want to piss off MKD.

Yea in deep sea fishing you learn about certain fish and Bringing them up and down.

I am not an expert but have caught a few from the Crew.

Pert Amazing what they can do.

Nobodys born with the Knowledge.

[Smit]

is that anywhere there is an air pocket would be collapsed. Lungs would collapse and ribs would brake.

In scuba diving the air you breath is pressurized to the water pressure around you by the regulator. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to breath when you're deep.

You have to equalize pressure in your ears, sinuses, and mask as you descend, and ascend, to keep your ear drums from collapsing or rupturing. I don't feel any pressure at all at 130 feet deep. Mask squeeze can be surprisingly painful. Also, if wearing a dry suit, you have to equalize pressure in your suit too. Suit squeeze is also very painful.

Free divers can dive to over 200 meters while holding their breath. I think the current record is 214 meters. Of course they would still have to equalize their ears. The air in the masks is also compressed so you have to equalize the mask pressure too.

Saturation divers, like the guys who work deep sea oil rigs, have gone to 2300 feet deep. Those guys live in a pressurized quarters so they are ready to dive when needed. The link below is for more info on saturation diving.

Saturation Diving

Today, most sat diving is conducted between 65 feet and 1,000 feet. Decompression from these depths takes approximately one day per 100 feet of seawater plus a day. A dive to 650 feet would take approximately eight days of decompression. With so much decompression time needed to return to the surface, it is more cost effective to keep the divers at depth. Once saturated to a depth, the decompression time is the same regardless of whether the dive lasted one day or 15 days. Most international standards are based on a maximum of 28 days "seal to seal" — the time from entering the chamber to leaving it. This means the working time will depend on how long decompression will take. For example, the dive to 650 feet would give divers a day to descend and rest, 19 days to work and eight days for decompression.

When most people envision saturation diving, they imagine the diver living in a vast undersea complex on the seafloor. There are some such saturation complexes, but commercial sat divers live on board dive support vessels (DSVs) in hyperbaric living quarters. Food and supplies are delivered through small airlocks, and these chambers have areas for sleeping, eating and showering. They even have a hyperbaric life raft should the sat divers have to abandon ship.

When the hull collapsed all that pressure hit at once. I'm sure the vessel was pressurized to an extent but nowhere near the pressure of the water. The water exploded in. I expect broken ribs just might happen, along with a lot of other unpleasant things.

[Del.]

I had no clue a person could free dive that deep. I'd drown at the 12 ft mark.

[Incogneeto]

Yea w

I had no clue a person could free dive that deep. I'd drown at the 12 ft mark.

Yea well Goldfish can't really go that Deep.

How many kids were standing at the Toilet and Saying " I hooked a Big One"