Well, that's something I wish I didn't read this morning on HN. Did he.. survive?
Well, let's see:
√ "violently dismembered"
√ "bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity" (i.e, body cut in half)
√ "expulsion of all of the internal organs"
>Hellevik was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the chamber explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to one atmosphere. One of the tenders, 32-year-old William Crammond of Great Britain, and all four of the divers were killed instantly; the other tender, Saunders, was severely injured.[10]
No!