- A clip from an outdated episode of the TV present “Mythbusters” has resurfaced on Twitter.
- Account @ChudsOfTikTok posted the clip as a comparability of what occurred on the Titan submersible.
- However what’s proven within the video clip is beneath extraordinarily totally different circumstances from the misplaced sub.
Typical diving fits are pressurized so the diver would not have to fret about decompression illness after they resurface.
But when one thing goes incorrect with the go well with’s pressurization, it could possibly be catastrophic for the diver.
To know what precisely would occur to a diver on this bleak state of affairs, TV present hosts Jessi Combs, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara performed a science experiment for season 7, episode 19, of “Mythbusters,” in line with Newsweek.
They created a human-shaped model from pig elements. The meat dummy got here full with bones, muscle, fats, pores and skin, and a midsection of guts. Then they put the model in an outdated diving go well with and sunk it 300 ft underwater, the place the strain is about 9 occasions nice than at sea degree.
The Twitter account ChudsofTikTok just lately resurfaced the clip from the episode in an try and conceptualize what could have occurred to the Titan passengers who have been just lately reported lifeless after their submersible possible imploded throughout its descent to the Titanic wreck website.
Nevertheless, it is price noting that the passengers weren’t carrying diving fits they usually have been possible a lot deeper than 300 ft when the submersible was thought to have imploded — that means the implosion that the fake meat model experiences within the “Mythbusters” experiment might be a lot slower than what the Titan passengers could have skilled. They possible died inside milliseconds.
Within the clip beneath, the speedy change in air strain as soon as the air provide is lower forces many of the go well with’s meaty contents into the helmet because the go well with itself collapses inward. Warning: seeing the method unfold is a grotesque sight.
—ChudsOfTikTok (@ChudsOfTikTok) June 22, 2023
