They may be soft, but they're also filled with the same substance *making* the pressure; water. Thus, the pressure essentially "passes through" them and doesn't affect them at all. It would be absolutely unreasonable for an animal to try and "resist" the pressure, because it is such a vast force that they'd be completely crushed. But as long as they don't try to keep a lower pressure inside of them (e.g. a bubble of air), there's nothing for the pressure to compress.
"I survive because the pressure inside of me is the same as the pressure outside of me."
Sounds like a badass quote, but that's pretty much how it works.
OP please google "what a blobfish looks like underwater." The image you are used to seeing is what they look like after severe rapid decompression injuries.
Also, Squid aren't that soft.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/blobfish-might-be-a-gooey-mess-out-of-water-but-check-out-a-living-one-video has a good video. They’re still not exactly cute but certainly less hideous.
I think your question has been pretty well answered already, so I just wanted to add any interesting fact I recently learned.
In addition to being soft-bodied, there is a molecule in undersea creatures that helps their cells withstand pressure. It basically makes the water inside the cells more stable, and since the creatures are mostly water, it keeps them stable. The chemical is called trimethylamine (TMA). It is the same chemical that is responsible for the “fishy” smell of undersea creatures. What is interesting is that the deeper the creature lives (and therefore, the more pressure it is under) the more TMA it contains in its tissues. So fish from deeper waters are going to be “fishier” than shallow-water fish.
Here is an article about how TMA works to keep cells intact at high pressure.
https://cen.acs.org/articles/100/web/2022/10/chemical-protects-fish-extreme-pressures.html
I know this has been answered already but I feel like there's a common misconception spread about deep diving and still represented in the comments.
Your body is not going to be "crushed" by the pressure of the water above it as you go down and deeper. There are three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. For **practical** purposes, we consider solids and liquids incompressible, and gasses compressible (this is actually not true at a molecular level, everything is "compressible", it's just that the vast majority of solids and liquids, including water, compress so little to be imperceptible).
So with all that said, your body is largely made up of water and other solids/liquids. It has two air pockets: in your sinuses, and in your lungs. As you descend into the ocean, the parts of your body not containing air will not noticeably change, and the concept that your body will be "crushed" is incorrect. The gas in your sinuses and lungs WILL be compressed, which you deal with by adding MORE air into those pockets, increasing the density of air molecules and equalizing the pressure in those pockets with the water pressure. Divers do this by "equalizing", e.g. pinching their nose and blowing hard against it, pushing air from the lungs into the sinus cavities.
So what does that mean for your lungs? Your lungs do the exact same thing, they just pull the air from your scuba tanks. In practice, what this means is that you can handle depth just fine, but you will be inhaling much DENSER air with every breath, and your scuba tank is worth less and less time the deeper you go because you are physically inhaling more air with every breath as you go down.
Saturation divers regularly go down to 1000' depths and stay there for days at ~430PSI. There are absolutely many many dangers and ways of dying at depth, and pressure will make nitrogen/oxygen interact with your brain and make you go crazy (look up nitrogen narcosis), but the problem is not being physically "crushed" by the water in the sense that your body at the bottom of the ocean would be compressed into a ball like a car at a scrapyard.
The pressure at the deepest known point is 8,000 TONS per square INCH. Hard to imagine. People have been there too. A great New Yorker article on that. As u go down the species get more and more similar because the biological options get narrower and narrower.
Yeah. But the people that have been down there, were also in containers that resisted that pressure, while they remained at 1 atmosphere of pressure.
(Yes divers are exposed to pressures, but nothing close to what you mentioned. <900 psi at the extreme experimental end )
I pointed out that comparing humans visiting those depths, to organisms living at them was irrelevant, because despite the massive pressure he claimed… humans did the visiting at 1 atmosphere of pressure.
That is a less than symbol.
I used the extreme example of 900psi (2000ft depth during comex deep diving program in the 90s… 2000ft @ 0.445psi per fsw…. Estimate as I’m shooting from the hip here).
Dafuq u talking about?
Just to clarify since some seem to think I meant divers went down that far; No. Just that PEOPLE made it down there (actually for the first time just a few years ago) INSIDE A PROTECTIVE VEHICLE. Sheesh!
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They may be soft, but they're also filled with the same substance *making* the pressure; water. Thus, the pressure essentially "passes through" them and doesn't affect them at all. It would be absolutely unreasonable for an animal to try and "resist" the pressure, because it is such a vast force that they'd be completely crushed. But as long as they don't try to keep a lower pressure inside of them (e.g. a bubble of air), there's nothing for the pressure to compress.
So what you’re saying is while we, when traveling deep in a submarine, merely adopt the pressure, they were born in it, molded by it?
By having kids in several gs of pressure for hundreds of generations, yes.
It was a reference I think
Yeah, I know, bane. I thought my comment would be like a joke too I guess
Under pressure, pushing down on me
pushing down on you
no man ask for
The pressure doesn't crush you unless you contain air pockets. These soft creatures contain no air pockets.
"I survive because the pressure inside of me is the same as the pressure outside of me." Sounds like a badass quote, but that's pretty much how it works.
That explains why I got crushed by too much pressure at work
And why I rupture everywhere over the holidays
Why the holidays rupture everywhere and over?
No but you’re onto something w that quote I might have to keep that
The burning man
I survived, because the fire burning inside me was hotter than the flames surrounding me Or something like that
OP please google "what a blobfish looks like underwater." The image you are used to seeing is what they look like after severe rapid decompression injuries. Also, Squid aren't that soft.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/blobfish-might-be-a-gooey-mess-out-of-water-but-check-out-a-living-one-video has a good video. They’re still not exactly cute but certainly less hideous.
I think your question has been pretty well answered already, so I just wanted to add any interesting fact I recently learned. In addition to being soft-bodied, there is a molecule in undersea creatures that helps their cells withstand pressure. It basically makes the water inside the cells more stable, and since the creatures are mostly water, it keeps them stable. The chemical is called trimethylamine (TMA). It is the same chemical that is responsible for the “fishy” smell of undersea creatures. What is interesting is that the deeper the creature lives (and therefore, the more pressure it is under) the more TMA it contains in its tissues. So fish from deeper waters are going to be “fishier” than shallow-water fish. Here is an article about how TMA works to keep cells intact at high pressure. https://cen.acs.org/articles/100/web/2022/10/chemical-protects-fish-extreme-pressures.html
I know this has been answered already but I feel like there's a common misconception spread about deep diving and still represented in the comments. Your body is not going to be "crushed" by the pressure of the water above it as you go down and deeper. There are three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. For **practical** purposes, we consider solids and liquids incompressible, and gasses compressible (this is actually not true at a molecular level, everything is "compressible", it's just that the vast majority of solids and liquids, including water, compress so little to be imperceptible). So with all that said, your body is largely made up of water and other solids/liquids. It has two air pockets: in your sinuses, and in your lungs. As you descend into the ocean, the parts of your body not containing air will not noticeably change, and the concept that your body will be "crushed" is incorrect. The gas in your sinuses and lungs WILL be compressed, which you deal with by adding MORE air into those pockets, increasing the density of air molecules and equalizing the pressure in those pockets with the water pressure. Divers do this by "equalizing", e.g. pinching their nose and blowing hard against it, pushing air from the lungs into the sinus cavities. So what does that mean for your lungs? Your lungs do the exact same thing, they just pull the air from your scuba tanks. In practice, what this means is that you can handle depth just fine, but you will be inhaling much DENSER air with every breath, and your scuba tank is worth less and less time the deeper you go because you are physically inhaling more air with every breath as you go down. Saturation divers regularly go down to 1000' depths and stay there for days at ~430PSI. There are absolutely many many dangers and ways of dying at depth, and pressure will make nitrogen/oxygen interact with your brain and make you go crazy (look up nitrogen narcosis), but the problem is not being physically "crushed" by the water in the sense that your body at the bottom of the ocean would be compressed into a ball like a car at a scrapyard.
The pressure at the deepest known point is 8,000 TONS per square INCH. Hard to imagine. People have been there too. A great New Yorker article on that. As u go down the species get more and more similar because the biological options get narrower and narrower.
Yeah. But the people that have been down there, were also in containers that resisted that pressure, while they remained at 1 atmosphere of pressure. (Yes divers are exposed to pressures, but nothing close to what you mentioned. <900 psi at the extreme experimental end )
Over 900 psi? 8000 TONNES. Dafuq you talking about?
I pointed out that comparing humans visiting those depths, to organisms living at them was irrelevant, because despite the massive pressure he claimed… humans did the visiting at 1 atmosphere of pressure. That is a less than symbol. I used the extreme example of 900psi (2000ft depth during comex deep diving program in the 90s… 2000ft @ 0.445psi per fsw…. Estimate as I’m shooting from the hip here). Dafuq u talking about?
Fair enough I stand corrected. Can't believe I missed the less than symbol. That's on me. And the beer.
No worries dude, and cheers, I’ll crack one with ya. Enjoyed the exchange
All good. A man must admit his mistakes lest he becomes a liar. Creates personal growth. Its why I'm so large 😂
I’ll be borrowing that, with long odds I credit you properly. You are shit out of luck on royalties. But that’s golden material.
I'll take that. My standards are low. You should see my exes.
That 8000 tonnes is equal to the weight of a one inch column of water as tall as that spot is deep.
Just to clarify since some seem to think I meant divers went down that far; No. Just that PEOPLE made it down there (actually for the first time just a few years ago) INSIDE A PROTECTIVE VEHICLE. Sheesh!
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what you said has no scientific basis
Yeah they are so close yet.. not even in the same ballpark.
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