I'm not trying to be insensitive, but I thought the bodies turned to goo. And I assumed that included the bones.
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I’m guessing “presumed human remains” means something close to “goo plus bones, we think”.
The bones would be dust after that shockwave
Just goo, then.
I'm guessing a few bits of flesh/goo got wedged in little nooks and crannies in the wreckage. Not very much...
Yeah this is what I thought too. Hard to imagine that whatever paste is left would be able to hold a shape or stay together if it's free floating.
Given that it’s “presumed” human remains, and needs testing by medical professionals… It sounds like what they found is said goo
I remember that being said as well
...so what all do we do with the bits of oligarch goo once it's recovered?
It forms a rich organic compound.
Should we.... eat it?
It might be a little too rich for your palate.
We’ve been saying it all this time… It would be wrong not to
Eat the rich?
I don't know... after it's been in the ocean this long? Too salty. I say we feed them to the pigs.
We prefer the term ooze...
One thing I’ve never found: what are remains like in this situation? Chunks? Entire limbs?
Well it was about 400 atmospheres of pressure. The bodies would have been cooked like in a pressure cooker and then turned into a gel. Maybe some of the thicker bones did not turn into paste though.
It's very brief though, only the outer layer is likely to have been heated notably due to rapid compression. The bones would turn to dust from the pressure
I would imagine something similar to the worst of the Byford Dolphin decompression accident, which was a torso and large limbs crushed to the point of being almost unrecognizable with internal organs and some chunks of soft tissue separated from the body. Photos of that exist and you can find the relevant research paper by googling "Byford Dolphin Autopsy," but seriously those pictures are gruesome. In the case of the Titan, because the hull was compromised, large portions of those bodies were probably lost to the sea.
I read the report you mentioned and I don't think this accident is a good comparison because the people in the Titan went from 1 atm to 400 atm while the victims of the Byford Dolphin accident went from 9 atm of pressure to 1 atm. Three (possibly four) of them were intact and died because all the fat in the blood suddenly precipitated, completely stopping circulation. Another guy was blasted through an opening that was much smaller than he, and was very much discombobulated as a result.
There's an order of magnitude difference between the incidents in pressure differentials and it was more like an instantaneous compression in the Titan than an explosive decompression like the Dolphin. So whatever happened in the Titan probably left an entirely different mess than that seen in the dolphin autopsy.
something similar to the worst of the Byford Dolphin
That's why I qualified my statement. I think the fourth victim is probably the closest analog we have decent reference for. (No one was ever recovered from the Thresher, which also wasn't at this same level of pressure as Titan when it imploded.)
Yeah, that 400 bar decompression would be like being inside an exploding bomb (except exploding in). Instantly turned into a smoothie.
Human based meat paste product. Goes great on crackers!
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box