Missing submersible

[s.a.m]

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Not to be too graphic

Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.

The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.

When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Yikes.

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That sounds terrifying, but mercifully and thankfully quick.




[Also ... whirlpools...]
[And the Bermuda Triangle, if we're getting into mythical options.]

[lapsedhibee]

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[Also ... whirlpools...]

That's just drowning again

[And the Bermuda Triangle.]

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[danhibees1875]

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That's just drowning again


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Have we had killed by pirates?

Swalled by a Whale?

[CropleyWasGod]

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Have we had killed by pirates?

Swalled by a Whale?

Becalming.

Scurvy.

Walking the plank and hitting the plank on the way down, sustaining a fatal head wound.

[stu in nottingham]

Such a very sad outcome, especially the young man of 19 years who had most of his life ahead of him.

Without trivialising the subject and with respects to the gentleman on the thread who is an ex-mariner and indeed my own father who was a Merchant Seaman, there are so very many ways. A quick think and a browse gave me the below. I think the seafarers make a good point.

My dad would have added German torpedos, which he somehow miraculously managed to survive.

Electrocution - electricity passes through salt water way quicker than fresh water. Particularly dangerous in the presence of lightning bolts

Capsizing

Sand bars

Icebergs (ahem)

Being hit by other boats

The bends (decompression sickness)

Getting lost at sea

Dehydration

Diving accidents (powerful currents/stuck in a cave etc.)

There are numerous boats every year that explode

Trawler accident

Tsunamis

Toxic algae

Riptides

Debris in the sea

Sand holes

Injuries from coral

Polluted water

Failure of equipment

Starvation