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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If thete was an implosion, wouldn't their Real Time Health Monitoring system have picked up on it?[/quote]

No. Because the Real Time Health Monitoring System also imploded.  I do not think you understand the immense pressure the water creates.[/quote]

I mean, I never claimed to, so I also don't understand why you felt the need to add that dig (though I can come up with plausible reasons).

Anyways, I know it's a lot of pressure, but I would think the pressure increases gradually the deeper you go, not instanteously.  And that the monitoring system would pick up on that.[/quote]

Any health monitoring system would have been operating at 1 atmosphere of pressure inside the hull. You are right in that the pressure increases gradually, but people can’t survive that, so they made a bubble of one atmosphere in the submarine and sealed it up. As it goes down to 12k feet where the pressure is 500 atm, the pressure inside the bubble is still 1 atm. So when it implodes, the water rushes in at that pressure differential.

Imagine a tire blowing up right next to you. Let’s say that tire was pressured to 40 psi. One atmosphere is about 15 psi. So a tire blowing up in your face would be a 1 atm (air around your face) to 2.5 atm differential, so a 1.5 atm difference. Now imagine an explosion where the pressure differential was 500 atm. [/quote]

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