if you are sitting inside a diving bell or moon pool deep in the ocean, what happens when you dip you feet in the water that is under high pressure? Would the pressure crush your feet right when you step your feet in?
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On top of what others have already addressed regarding the pressure in the bell being equal to the water pressure, your foot wouldn’t really be crushed anyways. There aren’t any hollow spaces to be compressed. The main areas of your body that are susceptible to be crushed by pressure like that are the air cavities: your lungs, air ways, sinuses, etc. There are some limits to this, mainly once you get to pressures that are able to compress water a meaningful amount.
This old reddit post covers the compression of water:
How much pressure is needed to compress water?
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