How can crabs, shrimp etc. live in deep sea when we barley have machinery that can handle it?

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I’m sorry in advance for poor format and english, I recently peaked an interest in the deep sea, and learnt how there are shrimp and crabs that are lower in depth than what we can send machinery, which is made of metal, and if i stand on a shrimp it crushes, but they can live at a depth where the pressure is 3000* my weight.

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It’s the same as us living at the bottom of our atmosphere, which is like an ocean of air. We are at roughly the same pressure internally as the atmosphere around us, which means you can’t survive in the low pressures of the upper atmosphere. Life deep in the ocean have an internal pressure roughly equal to the water around them.

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