What happens to the men when a sub is crushed

[Ducimus]

Or so is the thread title here:
http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/phorum/read.php?f=5&i=20&t=20&v=f

Im pretty sure ive posted this before somewhere, but damn if its not some ahhh... interesting reading.

[kiwi_2005]

Good read:up:

I read of two salvage attempts in this book i have where in the 1920's of two K - Boats (UK built) that went down in shallow water. These boats were a disaster design they were failing left right and centre. They weren't fast in the rescue attempts like they would be today, anyways two different instances from two boats sunk at shallow depth and salvage weeks later. On one boat they found the crew all entangled near the hatch with blood scratch marks on the hatch like if in their last moments they desperately tried to get out. In the other boat they found them all just laying dead in a peaceful kinda state.

[Rockin Robbins]

900º F with sudden rupture at 2000 ft. So you're simultaneously cooked, crushed, imploded, cut to ribbons by any spray and don't have time to drown, most likely. Not fun to contemplate.:huh:

[ATR-42]

Read the book Shadow Divers.
About a U-Boat that was researched by divers at her resting place on the ocean floor off New Jersey. Pretty good read. It talks a little about this topic, not pretty stuff...

[Peto]

From what I've read, submarines sunk in deep water never gave up any bodies. Just parts of them... The worst would be waiting for the implosion IMHO. When it came, death would be very quick.

[mcf1]

I read this and i'm glad that SH is only a simulator

[Peto]

I read this and i'm glad that SH is only a simulator

Amen

[fvd]

I've read somewhere that the crew dies in a fraction of a second.
Because of the extreme pressure of the water the air inside the sub gets pressurized immediatly and the temperature of this air can reach over a 1000 ° celcius. (for a very short period of time offcourse)
So it's the heat that kill's the crew in the blink of an eye.
Much better than drowning i guess...