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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

That's crazy. I imagine that at such depths, organic remains take longer to decompose than usual.

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    It was super interesting to see the parts they recovered in the video.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    How? I thought they turned into like a mist or whatever?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    "US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains"

    So... bits and pieces of organic matter that may or may not be human. I assumed that they all were blown to smithereens in the accident, so I'm curious to know what they found.

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