▲ 4 ▼ Human remains thought to be found in Titan sub debris (www.bbc.co.uk) submitted 3 years ago by seacocker@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) That's crazy. I imagine that at such depths, organic remains take longer to decompose than usual. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] davidarmstronglewis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Normally remains will be eaten by scavenging critters before they have a chance to decompose permalink fedilink source parent [–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) From what I've learned from the titanic I'm pretty sure they decompose faster as I know that even the clothes and bones of the titanic victims have decomposed we were only able to count victims based on the souls of their shoes that being the only part of the bodys that didn't decompose permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Most likely eaten rather than decomposed by microorganisms. Every animal that dies and falls to the sea bed is pretty quickly consumed by the bottom feeders. Here is a video of a whale being consumed on the sea floor. permalink fedilink source parent [–] coldv@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn't discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidarmstronglewis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Normally remains will be eaten by scavenging critters before they have a chance to decompose permalink fedilink source parent
[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) From what I've learned from the titanic I'm pretty sure they decompose faster as I know that even the clothes and bones of the titanic victims have decomposed we were only able to count victims based on the souls of their shoes that being the only part of the bodys that didn't decompose permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Most likely eaten rather than decomposed by microorganisms. Every animal that dies and falls to the sea bed is pretty quickly consumed by the bottom feeders. Here is a video of a whale being consumed on the sea floor. permalink fedilink source parent [–] coldv@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn't discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Most likely eaten rather than decomposed by microorganisms. Every animal that dies and falls to the sea bed is pretty quickly consumed by the bottom feeders. Here is a video of a whale being consumed on the sea floor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] coldv@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn't discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet. permalink fedilink source parent