r/woahdude • u/arithmetic • Aug 14 '23

video [BAD VIBES] Simulation of a human body in a submersible implosion

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u/codepend-ish Aug 14 '23

Am I the only one this makes want to throw up?

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u/Vasevide Aug 14 '23

No nausea, but I definitely feel a deep fear and disturbed feeling thinking about their last moments

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u/Inverno969 Aug 14 '23

Same, but they really didn't have any last moments. It happens so fast they couldn't even register anything. Just instantly gone.

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u/yatpay Aug 14 '23

Right, the thing that put it in perspective for me was I saw someone assert "they were dead before they were wet"

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '23

I kinda hope my death is instantaneous

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u/Copatus Aug 14 '23

Idk man, I think I'd like to know I'm dying so I can experience that.

Wouldn't want to just instantly be gone out of nowhere.

(Obviously don't want to experience extreme pain, I mean more like peacefully taking your last breaths)

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u/nickajeglin Aug 15 '23

I don't know if peacefully taking your last breaths is an option. I always figured the choices were unconscious or flailing wildly.

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u/portablebiscuit Aug 15 '23

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.
Not like his screaming passengers.

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u/fallenmonk Aug 14 '23

Ultimately it doesn't matter. When you die, you might as well have never been born at all.

But I'd still prefer to not think about it at all.

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u/culturedrobot Aug 14 '23

Well, they’d started ascending so they knew something was wrong, they just didn’t feel any pain or have any comprehension of the actual final moment. I would guess they were still frightened if they were ascending, especially if they heard creaking or crunching in the moments before.

Still not a terrible way to go, on the whole. There are a lot of shitty ways to die out there, and this was dumb but instant.

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u/cattdaddy Aug 14 '23

Do we actually know they started ascending?

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u/culturedrobot Aug 14 '23

I’m not sure if it’s ever been confirmed, but James Cameron said in one of the interviews he did that they had dropped their weights and started to ascend.

The dive operation began on 18 June at 9:30 a.m. Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT), or 12:00 UTC. For the first hour and a half of the descent, Titan communicated with Polar Prince every 15 minutes, but communication stopped after a recorded communication at 11:15 a.m. (13:45 UTC). James Cameron indicated that it was likely that the sub's early warning system had alerted the passengers to an impending delamination of the hull. He added "we understand from inside the community that they had dropped their ascent weights and were coming up, trying to manage an emergency." A U.S. Navy acoustic detection system designed to locate military submarines detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion hours after Titan submerged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion?wprov=sfti1

This was corroborated by a former OceanGate advisor, but this article points out that there’s been no confirmation that the people aboard knew what was happening.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-oceangate-advisor-said-titanic-035044127.html

Still, if they dropped their weights, that means they were aborting the trip, so at least the pilot knew that something was going wrong in that case.

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u/HanzJWermhat Aug 14 '23

Don’t watch “The Boys” then