Let’s say hypothetically a giant hole suddenly opened up that went super deep into the Earth’s mantle or even its core. Let’s also ignore the fact that it will be scorching hot and filled with lava or water. Let’s just say it opens up, it’s dry land, and we start exploring it. I know that the atmospheric pressure would be greater. Would it be similar to the sea where the body would eventually be crushed at a certain depth? And would explorers be required to do something similar to how deep sea divers decompress when they ascend?
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You wouldn’t be crushed period. Your body is mostly water, which is functionally incompressible. If someone tied a lead weight to your foot and dropped you into the ocean over the Marianas Trench and you didn’t have to breathe, you’d go right down to the bottom just fine. Your eyes and eardrums would probably be unhappy, but the rest of you would still function.
It’s the gasses in your body that don’t like pressure, not your body itself.
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