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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What do you expect to happen by it getting crushed?

It is getting crushed, the metal is I’m sure a little denser than it would’ve been on the surface cause the atoms are being squeezed together. But thats just what getting crushed is.

Things only implode/explode if pressure is not evenly distributed. If it is evenly distributed, like it is on the titanic because this pressurized water has filled every nook and cranny, then its just the atoms getting squeezed more, there isn’t a structural crushing that can happen.

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