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.
Wouldn't that wake them up?
I also assumed that too much CO2 fast is the key not the super slow version of what those people in the sub have experienced
You then argued that breathing increased levels of CO2 will trigger survival instincts. This is also true, and exactly what grandparent said.
OP, correctly, pointed out that we don't detect the lack of O2, we detect a buildup of CO2 (because it causes respiratory acidosis). If the CO2 is removed, there's nothing to cause the panic response, the situation itself notwithstanding.
It's still nea that it works with an impaired amygdala, though.
why do i have to argue here with so many people about something so simple to understand?
Unless you know you are trapped and running out of oxygen.
There was a horrifying case after Pearl Harbor where bodies were found in the airpocket of the USS West Virginia. They had flashlights with batteries and fresh water and had marked off 16 days on a calendar.
Legend has it that sailors could hear banging for weeks knowing they could not cut through the thick battleship armor in time and just drowned out the noise.
Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.
Imagine a Ford F150 sitting on every square inch of your body.
I don't think there will be any bodies to recover.
logically not in this case. at that point where the water level is sufficient to make someone drown the remaining air would be compressed to several hundred atmospheres pressure.
And because making sounds without lungs attached to your throat is kinda hard
Similar to the Arbogast in The Expanse, but even greater disassembly.
> Exposure to pressure below this limit results in a rapid loss of consciousness, followed by a series of changes to cardiovascular and neurological functions, and eventually death, unless pressure is restored within 60–90 seconds. [0]
When a deep sub implodes you're going to be hit by water moving at the speed of sound in said water (1,500m/s, considerably faster than in air.) That's far above the speed of nerve impulses, there's no way a pain signal could reach the brain before there isn't a brain left to get the signal.
Especially in the case where I’ve drugged one of my children to come with me.