Watching the “High Seas” episode of Our Planet and watching camera crews in these special pressure-resistant submarines capture footage of some pretty fragile looking fish, some of them are pretty sizable too. How are they not crush by the weight of the depths?
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The same reason why you don’t get crushed be the enormous weight of the atmosphere above you. When you are filled with a fluid, the outward pressure of that fluid equalizes to the inward pressure.
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