What happens when a submarine goes too deep?

The name is foreboding and fairly self-explanatory; it's when the submarine goes so deep the water pressure crushes it, causing an implosion. The crush depth of most submarines is classified, but it's likely to be more than 400 metres.
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Can you suffocate in a submarine?

There are three things that must happen in order to keep air in a submarine breathable: Oxygen has to be replenished as it is consumed. If the percentage of oxygen in the air falls too low, a person suffocates. Carbon dioxide must be removed from the air.
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Can you survive a sunken submarine?

Yes! Escape plans and tools are almost as old as submarine technology itself. Although the odds may always be stacked in favor of the merciless, cold depths of the sea, a few dozen lucky people have taken that unintentional ride down to the ocean floor and lived to see daylight again.
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Can submarines get crushed?

Crush confusion

Because the crush depth is the depth at which the submarine is crushed, a submarine, by definition, cannot exceed crush depth without being crushed.
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Can a submarine survive a hurricane?

Many former submarine sailors remember crossing the storm. At an appropriate depth the boat was completely stable and the crew couldn't even tell that there is a storm happening above. That is one great advantage of serving in a submarine. However, if absolutely necessary, big ships can also cross most of the storms.
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How Deep Can A Submarine Go?



At what depth will water crush you?

This means we'd have to dive to about 35.5 km depth before bone crushes. This is three times as deep as the deepest point in our ocean. The 40% of non-water non-gaseous minerals and tissues such as salts, proteins, fats and lipids are virtually impossible to compress similar to water.
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Do your ears pop on a submarine?

So no, submariners don't have popping ears and interestingly and importantly, it means that if you have an accident, deep down and you have to escape from a submarine, you won't get the bends because you haven't been breathing air at pressure.
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Can a submarine survive a tsunami?

Fleet of around 10 specially-designed submarine-refuges.

Some small and strong-hulled titanium submarines could survive stronger impacts and tsunami waves, but larger submarines with thinner hulls could be better adapted to long-term survival in a contaminated world.
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What is the longest a submarine has stayed submerged?

The longest submerged and unsupported patrol made public is 111 days (57,085 km 30,804 nautical miles) by HM Submarine Warspite (Cdr J. G. F.
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Do submarines stink inside?

Amine fills the air

You are probably wondering why I would call this post such thing... Since Submarines remain submerged with a sealed atmosphere they rely on a chemical called Amine to remove the carbon dioxide. This chemical makes everything stink.
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Are females allowed to work on submarines?

The only officers with their own cabins are the captain, executive officer and weapon engineer officer. Only a small number of the 160-strong crew are female.
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Do submarines have AC?

Even though the entire submarine has air cooling facility, only two decks are air-conditioned. The temperature in the rest of the submarine is around 30-35 degrees and the crew works in sweltering heat. The quality of the air is monitored constantly for impurities.
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Can your body explode underwater?

(The air would be compressed.) So, the lungs would collapse. At the same time, the pressure from the water would push water into the mouth, filling the lungs back up again with water instead of air. But if there's no air-filled space to be pushed into, the body would not be crushed.
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Can you swim out of a submarine?

Once the pressure in and outside the ship match, the hatch will lift off open, and they can swim out of a fully filled chamber into open ocean.”
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Why do submarines have curtains not doors?

A small curtain offers each submariner some privacy - vital when more than 20 men share this one room. Jamie says he has no problem with the six months they may spend at sea without daylight or fresh air, often with no access to communications with their families back at home.
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Are submarines immune to storms?

During normal weather conditions, a submerged submarine will not rock with the motion of the waves on the surface. In fact, during even moderate storms the submarine stays perfectly level at its submerged depth while the waves crash above.
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Do you get seasick in a submarine?

Will I get seasick? Is it like being on a boat? Being on a submarine is very different to being on a boat. There is no rocking motion, as the submarine sits below the waves, and so people who get seasick on a boat will not do so on our submarine.
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At what depth do submarines cruise?

Now, the operating depth of most modern submarines is 300 to 450 meters. For a submarine to surface from that depth, it first uses its hydroplanes to reduce its depth upto 3 to 4 meters below waterline.
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Do you feel pressure in a submarine?

Even if the submarine dives to 300 meters (I'm picking something at random), you'll feel mostly the same. It will be just like enjoying a cup of tea in a windowless room at sea level. This is because the interior of the vessel is kept at an approximate pressure of 1 atmosphere, which is what you feel at the surface.
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How long can you live in a submarine?

The limits on how long they can stay underwater are food and supplies. Submarines generally stock a 90-day supply of food, so they can spend three months underwater.
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Is the inside of a submarine pressurized?

A sub always has a pressure inside that is about equal to the air pressure at sea level (let's call it "1 atmosphere"). If the outside is also equal to 1 atmosphere there's no pressure difference and no strain on the shell (hull) of the sub. At 10 meters below the surface, the pressure is 2 atmospheres.
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Can you fart while diving?

Farting is possible while scuba diving but not advisable because: Diving wetsuits are very expensive and the explosive force of an underwater fart will rip a hole in your wetsuit. An underwater fart will shoot you up to the surface like a missile which can cause decompression sickness.
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Does the ocean have a bottom?

The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'.
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How many ATM Can a human survive?

NCBI provides a short paper with a theoretical limit of 1000m for humans, based on data we have collected from saturation divers to date. That would be 100atm of pressure. Somewhere in between is the claimed record for deep diving which is roughly 600m.
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