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pegusus123456 posted...

Turns out Mythbusters did a segment about some "myth" of how deep sea pressure affects the human body. They put a pig carcass into a diving suit and then fucked with the air pressure. It basically exploded.

Pretty grim to watch them all laughing and cheering while thinking about those dudes in the sub <_<

I think that was the deep diver myth, where the air hose being severed would cause the water pressure to crush the human body into the diver's helmet.
I can't recall if they used a pig carcass or a gelatinous human dummy stuffed with meat, or whether the myth was busted or not. Anyhow, in typical Mythbusters fashion, they recreated the conditions that would push the body into the helmet and uh... the suit was crushed like a tube of toothpaste and the only place the, err, "toothpaste" could go to was the helmet.