The Byford Dolphin Incident: How do you get sucked into something so strongly by a change of air from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1?

Question

Please somebody know what I’m talking about. If not, then please see the diving bell incident in the link provided below. I just don’t see how you are killed by air.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

In: Physics

Answer 1

They were inside a high-pressure environment that gained a small opening to a much, much lower-pressure environment.

Have you ever seen what happens when you put some dry ice in a water bottle and seal the lid? It builds up internal pressure as the frozen CO² sublimates into gas, then the thing violently explodes because the pressure differential between the bottle and the atmosphere is so great. It’s like that, but in a much larger, rigid bottle, where just the cap blows off, and there’s a balloon full of meat inside.