Surviving the Pressure: Trapped Inside a Sinking Ship

[Gondur]

If you were trapped inside water tight chamber inside a sinking ship, would you survive all the way to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? Or would the pressure crush the walls of the chamber at some depth?

 

[Nugatory]

It depends on how strong the walls of the chamber are. It would be a good exercise for you to calculate the pressure at various depths, get a feeling for the magnitude of the forces involved.

 

[anorlunda]

Yes the walls would implode on you. Even submarines implode if they go too deep. Only specially designed vessels like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminaut can go deeper.