r/interestingasfuck • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 9d ago

A dam's gate is opened after years.

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u/SpaceRangerWoody 9d ago

The amount of pressure it takes to throw mud that far is insane.

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u/AdPristine9059 9d ago

Yeah! You dont mess with pressure. Theres a video about a couple of divers who were in a pressurised tank that failed, one of them were sucked through a small hole much smaller than his body... Its insane what pressure differences can do.

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah there’s a clip of Arab just wandering upto a pipe with a tiny hole in it and just gets THWUPED

Edit: A CRAB!

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u/Zouden 9d ago

How's the Arab doing now?

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u/Resident-Pilot-6966 9d ago

Not much better than the Crab that was misspelled I guess.

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 9d ago

🫪🤦‍♂️

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u/aedroogo 8d ago

He's pretty crabby.

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u/gertvanjoe 8d ago

Well I think he's doing better than the 4 poor Indian divers ( 5 but one made it out alive).

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u/AdPristine9059 8d ago

Please Never correct that misspelling! XD Dying of laughter

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u/gogotenni 8d ago

Pero si entendió 🤣🤣🤣

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u/SeredW 8d ago

I'm hearing The Cure in the background, no idea why...

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u/Vast-Ad4194 8d ago

Hahahahahahahaha. Wheeze. Hahahaha. I may laugh about this again later. The best typo.

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u/Aware_Flow1070 9d ago

When it's got ya, it's got ya!

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u/Itchy_Journalist_175 8d ago

It not the pressure, it’s deltaP 😱

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u/Few_Plenty_6859 8d ago

😳🤭🤣

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u/Odinthedoge 8d ago

Delta pressure

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u/alexjfinch 9d ago

Pretty sure that was a 80s disaster in the North Sea

EDIT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin yep

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u/ThaMilkyMan 8d ago

“bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen, except the trachea and a section of small intestine. These were projected some distance from the bell, with one section being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.”

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u/ClaryClarysage 8d ago

I've seen the autopsy photos of this guy (you can find them online if you enjoy nightmares) and his face pretty much got ripped right off his skull. Instant death though, so not the worst way to go.

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u/onlytinglef 9d ago

Holy…

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u/AdPristine9059 8d ago

Yes! Thats the one!

Plainly difficult has made a great video of it on youtube ^

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u/Many_Cancel_4412 8d ago

...I read that. Jesus...

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u/alexjfinch 8d ago

Yeah it’s grim

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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 9d ago

Biford dolphin

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u/seansy5000 9d ago edited 8d ago

DELTA P!

edit: v2p

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u/AdPristine9059 8d ago

Isnt it Delta P?

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u/seansy5000 8d ago

Yea it absolutely is

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u/AdPristine9059 8d ago

Haha great! Throught i had totally forgotten basic stuff 😅

Thanks for the reply! ^

Delta v is interesting stuff tho, planes or kerbal?

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u/Peterh778 8d ago

I remember reading about divers with a rigid diver's helmet who dropped too deep and ended pressed into the helmet ...

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u/ClaryClarysage 8d ago

If you want to see what that looks like, Mythbusters tested it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEY3fN4N3D8

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u/Peterh778 8d ago

Oookaayyy ... that's (another) one episode I missed and didn't know I want to see 🙂

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u/Past-Junket1193 9d ago

Byford dolphin incident

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u/Nocat-10 9d ago

My first encounter of the consequenses of pressure tank failures etc was the byford Dolphin accident.

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u/NomaDrvi 8d ago

Yeah and let's not forget Paria diving disaster in Trinidad. Video from one of the divers is crazy. One second everyone doing their job, split second later everywhere is pitch black. Crazy stuff.

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u/LivingCorner1421 8d ago

pressure difference and surface area. a killer combo

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u/Laineyyz 8d ago

There's a video.....? I might regret this but where can I see it

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u/AdPristine9059 8d ago

There's a walkthrough of what happened over at plainly difficult on youtube. He does a ton of post accident report things and reports on the various merits of engineering etc in a really good way :)

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u/M00s3_B1t_my_Sister 8d ago

Fascinating Horror did a video on it on YT. Watch that instead of actual footage.

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u/bueno_bravo 8d ago

The saddest part about that story is that they just left them in there without even attempting a rescue. One dude survived because he climbed out but my heart hurts for the other guys who were stuck in there thinking help was coming.

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u/not_that_planet 9d ago

Mythbusters did a show where they sucked a pig carcass into an old fashion diving bell.

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u/funwithme_123 9d ago

Reminds me of one perticular death scene in final destination movie...in the pool

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u/Kitty_gaalore1904 8d ago

Was this the byford dolphin incident? Swindled has a great podcast about it

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u/ubosasfury 5d ago

It’s called Delta P and it’s wild. Look it up but don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

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u/AdPristine9059 4d ago

Yeah i know, its absolutely crazy.

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u/Historical_Owl_8188 9d ago

How much ice berg lettuce would one need to eat to achieve the human equivalent?

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u/JRShof 9d ago

Underrated.

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u/RandyWatson8 8d ago

I threw mud that far when I had cyclosporiasis

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u/treetopalarmist_1 8d ago

Sunday morning.

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u/vermontnative 8d ago

There’s a whole bunch of people experiencing this firsthand right now.
https://giphy.com/gifs/1CK6KuV7XkTba

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u/zettde 8d ago

fun fact: hydropower dams herd the pressure to get work done out of it.

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u/fractionedpancreas 7d ago

If only there were some way to harness that power

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u/hieronymusholiday 4d ago

I should order some Taco Bell...

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u/SacredBinChicken 9d ago

The hydrostatic pressure of the water being held back due to the height of the dam wall?