How the hell is it possible to die in a sinking ship?

[KillahBee]

Seriously. Other than being in the cold water for too long or hunger or whatever, how do people actually die in a ship sinking? It's not like that shit all of a sudden breaks in the middle and sinks like a stone. It takes hours for a ship to go down. Jump off the friggin deck, port-side, and swim away.

 

[Ganryu]

If you are lucky enough to be on a weather deck. If you are a few decks down, the bottom of a ship fills up fast. Not to mention the possibility of being trappped by desbris due to the ship being hit/attacked.

 

[ChefWide]

Wrong.

Huge explosion engulfing your shattered bones in wreaths of fire that lick your charred skin off of spasm wracked limbs.

 

[CipherLock]

Here I thought you'd just drown.

 

[Ganryu]

And, if you jump off an aircraft carrier, be careful how you land. Some of the flight decks on those can be 10 stories+ from the waterline.

 

[Y_lifter]

And then you get sucked into the prop and chopped to chum..

Yea, most that die in sinkings outside of exposure or fire/explosion are trapped below decks.

 

[hardrock]

unless you have gills (and I know I don't) you can't breathe under water.

 

[CipherLock]

What if the ship was an air ship?

 

[Y_lifter]

What if the ship was an air ship?

or a space ship ?

 

[milo hobgoblin]

..............

..........here s the reason.


when the ship goes down it actually creates a "vacuum" of sorts around it pulling everything down with it for quite a ways.

Eventually whatever floats will come back up but most drown...

Horrible way to die.

 

[ChefWide]

What if the ship was an air ship?

Originally posted by Y_Lifter
or a space ship ?

Huge explosion engulfing your shattered bones in wreaths of fire that lick your charred skin off of spasm wracked limbs.

Covers most ships.


The vacuum thing you speak of is exacerbated by bubbles. Huge quanities of trapped air continue to escape as the vessel sinks, and it reduces the objects in the bubbly water to remain boyant. You sink in bubbly water. You die.

 

[The_Ghost]

Re: ..............

..........here s the reason.


when the ship goes down it actually creates a "vacuum" of sorts around it pulling everything down with it for quite a ways.

Eventually whatever floats will come back up but most drown...

Horrible way to die.

was just gonna say this.

mental note, if in water by sinking ship, swim like hell, till ya can't swim no more!!!!

 

[ChefWide]

Oh, getting your throat slit after being gang assraped by fugitive west african sailors is good too.

 

[digger]

If you aren't shredded as in ChefWide's examples... you're going to swim to where in (let's say) ten minutes?

That's about how long you've got in the North Atlantic. Longer in tropical waters, sure, but on the US - Europe routes, you will quickly reach the ambient temperature of about 50F -- being immersed in an entire frickin' ocean guarantees that. At that temp the chemical reactions we call "life" no longer take place in human beings.

Different story if you make it to a lifeboat, maybe there are several of you bundling together, you've got clothing, blankets... but the main thing is you have got to get out of that cold water or you get to be Leo DiCaprio in Titanic.