Water pressure and you

[SUBMAN1]

Salty eggs are good!

...But the experimentally minded on such expeditions were also tempted to see what might withstand the pressure, and in at least one instance sent down a raw egg.


Filled with incompressible fluid, Ms. Kaharl wrote, the egg returned to the surface “perfectly intact and edible, but salty.”

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Salty eggs are good!

The egg makes perfect sense as to why it did not crush. The salty taste? As the article reads, the water attempts to penetrate every thing so the egg is not resistent to the salt looking to get it's way in. So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

[August]

One thing that never ceased to amaze me during my SCUBA diving days is how you can begin exhaling as you ascend from 100ft and still be exhaling as you broke the surface a couple minutes later.

[Tango589]

So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

You can, but one on-board explosion and you would have one hell of a omellette!

Ps. I have now turned into one of the Village People!

[AVGWarhawk]

So, think about. If we fill a sub with egg yoke or any liquid that does not compress like brake fluid. Put a man inside suspended in the fluid with air tanks to breath, in theory, could it go all the way to the bottom without recourse to the man inside?

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

So, think about. If we fill a sub with egg yoke or any liquid that does not compress like brake fluid. Put a man inside suspended in the fluid with air tanks to breath, in theory, could it go all the way to the bottom without recourse to the man inside?

No. Even assuming the tank has enough air pressure in it to overcome the pressure of the water at some point the air will become so compressed that it will become toxic to breath even a single breath.

[seafarer]

I have a bunch of those cups, as does every member of my family and some friends (my mother has hers in a curio table with some deep-sea clam and mussel shells). It was pretty customary to decorate a bunch to go down on each of your own dives. On one ALVIN dive series off the Oregon coast, they even did a whole human torso. But that came out pretty weird - as do some of the heads (wig display holders actually). Many of those larger styrofoam pieces are cast in two halves and then joined to make the whole head/torso/body. Sometimes, the halves come from different batches of foam, and they compress differently, giving a kind of mutated result.

That article should have shown some of the shrunken heads - the cups are quite bland in comparison :p

[Trex]

Originally Posted by August

No. Even assuming the tank has enough air pressure in it to overcome the pressure of the water at some point the air will become so compressed that it will become toxic to breath even a single breath.

I suspect there would also be a problem with those parts of the body containing air. While the incompressible liquid of the body might not collapse, one cannot guarantee that for places like lungs, gut, ears, sinuses, etc.

Your idea has however found a following in some scifi books for high-G support.

[StdDev]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

I'm pretty sure that under those conditions the sub could go all the way to the bottom!!!!