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So if they sink into a trench I wonder if they just completely explode from the pressure.


If any air was in the lungs it would be replaced with water, otherwise our bodies wouldn't respond much. We're mostly water and other matter that's very hard to compress.


External pressure causes the opposite of an explosion: implosion.


I'd imagine any gasses would be squeezed out but it wouldn't look like an explosion.




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