I always wondered at the end of Titanic whether Leo would end up like a pancake full of bones, or like a sort of skin-covered skeleton, or perhaps even like a small ball... Hmmm.
2006-06-25 06:43:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
But if he would "just contract," then surely his chest cavity and lungs would be crushed more than, say, his calves? His skull would pop?
2006-06-25 06:47:58 · update #1
I know bodies float, but let's assume that he's got a weight around him.
2006-06-25 06:48:41 · update #2
I'm pretty sure that the water pressure would just force the water into the cavities where air was trapped, filling the space with liquid rather than imploding the body. Unlike a sealed submarine with strong metal hatches, the entrances and exits to the human body are muscularly controlled, and when the muscles relax at death, they cease to be effective barriers to the entry of water.
So, Leo would just be filled with water instead of crushed.
2006-06-25 06:51:56 · answer #1 · answered by Grant D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On the other hand, if a person doesn't "sink" but is "trapped" under water...
Fact: A sphere is nature's most "efficient" form, because it contains the most volume for a given surface area.
In the 1920s professional deep sea divers wore rubberized-canvas pressure suits - pressurized with compressed air fed from the surface, and wore bronze helmets. If he suddenly lost his air (a cut hose) at 200 feet deep, I read, his body would be smashed by the sudden pressure change, and would be forced up into his bronze helmet as a gelatinous (jelly-like) mass. For what it's worth.
2006-06-25 17:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by Puzzleman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo, with his body under tremendous pressure of about 300 Bar, ended up like a pancake full of bones.
2006-06-25 14:12:14 · answer #3 · answered by gaur 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liquids are no more compressible than solids.
So if you sink in water, only the gas filled bits will experience problems from the pressure at all. So your lungs would collapse. Your ears may be damaged. Thats it really.
Of course, you would also drown.
2006-06-25 15:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by Epidavros 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would just contract. The water pressure is applied equally around his body.
2006-06-25 13:46:27 · answer #5 · answered by trancevanbuuren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my best guess:
first a little ball due to implosion, then it flattens out when it gets to the bottom.
2006-06-25 13:47:25 · answer #6 · answered by dirk_vermaelen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bodies float.
2006-06-25 13:46:43 · answer #7 · answered by paddy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most probably.
2006-06-25 13:48:26 · answer #8 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i donno
2006-06-25 13:47:49 · answer #9 · answered by rossmeryrule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋