How do sunken ships like the titanic not get crushed under the pressure?

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I assume the metal and materials the boats are made of are strong but surely not to withstand the pressure of being 12,000 feet underwater? At the end of the day it’s not like the engineers had to consider holding up to that much pressure in their design right?

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Imagine an inflated balloon on the floor. When you step on it, it pops. The balloon is a pressured submersible and your foot is the crushing sea pressure pushing on it.

The Titanic on the sea bed is like an uninflated balloon. It is not pressurised. Anything that was pressurised did explode/implode on the way down.

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