thats impossible

i hate to think about what it would be like to be alive and trapped under water like kittens in a box scratching to get out. it hurts me just to think about how many people actually had to go through that.

Well, here are the details. First your eardrums would pop since they are much weaker than your lungs. Next, you'd feel a squeezing sensation in your entire body until POP! Your lungs went and you died from suffocating or just being smashed as most probably were.

Its funny, because I have never thought about passengers being crushed because of the pressure. I always thought that they would have drowned first. Additionally, I know that passengers were killed from the funnels falling over. hm........if some did survive inside the stern because a pocket of air....yeah....that would be terrible.

The idea of this is just horrible, but i beleive that there were third class passengers as well as crew members trapped in the hull as she went down. There is a scene in Ghosts of the Abyss where the third class family are left in their room to die, nasty.

What a totally grim concept! Clive Cussler had a fictional person
in the ship's safe; NOW that person probably would've survived
the collision with the ocean bottom and an hour or two after, but
there were probably few places where air could be trapped any
where else in the ship for more than a minute.

Around 289 (kitchen staff, mostly French and Italian) were herded into their cabins, E DECK AFT, and locked in. They died from pressure at around 200-300 feet.

good point i bet dat wuld be painful!

If anyone survived (even in an air pocket) they wouldn't of made it very far down. The main reason is that the further down to the ocean floor, the more pressure there becomes. People would of been crushed as they went down.

So that'll be a no then, will it?

I've often wondered about that as there are records of submariners surviving in extreme depths as their boat took it's final plunge.

OK, thanks all who replied.

Rich