• @swan_pr
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    181 year ago

    “US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains”

    So… bits and pieces of organic matter that may or may not be human. I assumed that they all were blown to smithereens in the accident, so I’m curious to know what they found.

  • @nihilist_hippie
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    141 year ago

    It was super interesting to see the parts they recovered in the video.

    • bruzie
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      51 year ago

      Presume that similar to air incident investigations, there’ll be a forensics investigation on the wreckage to formally determine the cause of the incident.

      However, the difference between the two situations is that aircraft have fully documented designs and maintenance reports, whereas this craft appears to have been cobbled together with zip ties.

    • Hangglide
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      31 year ago

      Where is this video?

    • @Widowmaker_Best_Girl
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      1 year ago

      I was told the rate of compression that happened when the sub imploded would have been quick enough to light the air and basically vaporize the inhabitants within.

      I’m curious how they have remains to be found.

    • ColonelSanders
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      11 year ago

      I certainly understand the need for something tangible for closure just in general (i.e. “we’ve positively identified the remains to be your loved one”), but would having a partial fragment of someone’s skull or hip or something be something they’d show (or need) at a funeral?

  • @twistedtxb
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    41 year ago

    That’s crazy. I imagine that at such depths, organic remains take longer to decompose than usual.

    • credit crazy
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      51 year ago

      From what I’ve learned from the titanic I’m pretty sure they decompose faster as I know that even the clothes and bones of the titanic victims have decomposed we were only able to count victims based on the souls of their shoes that being the only part of the bodys that didn’t decompose

      • @coldv
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        81 year ago

        To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn’t discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet.

  • ColonelSanders
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    41 year ago

    It’s kind of surprising since the way it was explained to me, no remains could…well “remain” given the pressure at that depth. I know how morbid it sounds, but strictly speaking I would be interesting to know which “parts” remained/they found that could’ve withstood that.

    • TheYang
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      31 year ago

      I mean most of the body is water, which will withstand any pressure in the ocean.

      I’d assume that a body slowly dropped to that depth would remain mostly intact.
      The Speed at which everything happened makes it much more difficult. How quickly did the hull collapse, how quickly did the air in the submarine compress, did that pressure have time to equalize in the bodies as well?

  • Hondolor
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    -11 year ago

    Not a surprise really, I hear there were once humans in there