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 Posted: Wed Mar 11th, 2009 06:06 pm
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that is correct.  Look at it this way.  if you were to  step out of your submersible i the marinas trench, the only part of you that would be crushed would be your gas filled spaces.   That gas would probably be squeezed out of you and/or absorbed into your tissues, but once it is gone you would no longer feel the presure around you.  Tha said, you also would not be able to breath.

Do you remember that movie the abyss.  In it there was a scene in which the main character tries on the seals liquid breathing aparatus.  That idea (and I don't know if this is real technology, but I doubt it) works on the same principle.