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Originally Posted by Rockstar
I thought trapped air tended to compress rather than expand when sinking to the murky depths of the ocean. Cause of that kind of damage I suspect would've most likely been from damage suffered while being attacked on the surface then finished up by a tremendous impact she suffered on the ocean floor.
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Like I said the Titanic is the classic example of an implosion (the stern section) This is partly why the bow is much more intact then the stern. Its like when a submarine hits crush depth and implodes, its basically the same effect with trapped air in a ship where the structure takes the surrounding sea pressure until it implodes. This is more common when the ship after slipping beneath the surface drops fast to the bottom which causes the rapid compression of the air (and surrounding structure with it) causing an implosion.
With the Yamato most of the damage would have been caused by the explosion (the splayed out edges tend to indicate an internal explosion, torpedo hits and bomb hits tend to bend the metal inwards if they exploded on the outside), further damage would have been caused by the impact with the sea floor, and internally in the less damaged sections implosions would have likely occured inside the hull.