<story><title>Debris Field Confirmed as Titan</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything?&lt;p&gt;Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.</text></item><item><author>giarc</author><text>Somewhere a redditor did the math and I believe it would have taken 24ms for the glass to break and the water to rush in. Instant death if it was indeed the glass.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonblack</author><text>I did read somewhere (I don&amp;#x27;t remember exactly where) that when there is an implosion at great depth the air in the submarine is compressed so quickly that anything flammable (specifically human bodies, plastics, etc) would burn up instantly. So it&amp;#x27;s a bit like the explosion of the fuel-air mixture in a diesel engine.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debris Field Confirmed as Titan</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything?&lt;p&gt;Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.</text></item><item><author>giarc</author><text>Somewhere a redditor did the math and I believe it would have taken 24ms for the glass to break and the water to rush in. Instant death if it was indeed the glass.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Merad</author><text>The pressure at that depth is something like 5000 psi.  You&amp;#x27;re literally dead before your brain has time to comprehend what&amp;#x27;s happening.</text></comment>