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Can you clarify what you mean by this? As I type this comment, I have about that density of air in my lungs, and it doesn't particularly trouble me.


One atmosphere in your lungs, ten atmospheres outside your lungs --> scrunch.

For an approximate simulation, imagine what removing 90% of the air from your lungs might feel like.


That's not how flexible containers work. In the presence of increased pressure, the guts press against the diaphragm, which compresses the lungs.

I don't have to imagine what removing air from my lungs feels like: that is part of breathing! Anyway, this guy seems to do OK compressing his lungs even more:

http://competition.the-french-job.com/spread-the-world-recor...


If the increased pressure is high enough, your diaphragm and lungs are going to be in a world of hurt.

Physiological freaks aside, go too deep, and you're dead. Especially when you go from 1 bar to, say, 15 instantly, which is a situation that free divers do not expose themselves to.


It's not just your lungs though...

You know that pain you get in your sinuses and ears and other air-pockets in your body when you swim to the bottom of the deep-end of the pool? That's from a pressure difference of like .3 bar. Now imagine something 10 times that.


If your lungs contain 1 bar, and water around you is 10 bar, you will be very uncomfortable.




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