Amazing Video footage... Poor Crab...

[targaboy78]

This is a video taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch ... remember that width) in a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipeline is 0 psig, while the pressure outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along....

http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/crab/

 

[fishfreek]

Poor crab. Walked along the wrong bit of pipe that day.

 

[Guest]

Talk about the wrong place at the wrong time!

 

[oscarbreeder]

THAT WAS WILD!

 

[Fruitbat]

Whoopsie!!!

 

[Bearfan]

Just wow.

 

[astride13]

I bet that crab will never climb on a pipe again.

 

[deli_conker]

ouch.
at least it was quick...

 

[Doan]

That is kinda how I feel walking into my office on monday mornings...

 

[ferret]

Funny what differences in pressure can do :/

 

[Vicshaw]

I dont get it! Was the crab pulled in the tube due to pressure or was in sawed in half or something?

 

[micaheli]

Pressure

So, under that much water, there is a LOT of pressure. Inside the pipe however, there wasn't ANY because it was sealed and linked with the surface. SO... Just like in space movies, it got sucked in at HIGH speed.

Ever see Alien Resurrection? Remember the part where the alien gets sucked out of that tiny hole in the glass? THAT is what it was like.

Hope I helped.

--Micah

 

[William]

Horrible!!!

 

[skys]

ohh man 8O

 

[fernzpat]

Luckily for everyone involved a small tube of superglue was sucked in just seconds before the crab and he was spared...

 

[ferret]

I think that crab needs a bit more help than superglue.

 

[ptchfork]

Wow - imagine what happened to the humpback that came looking for the crab!

 

[gfishguy56]

I actually feel really bad for this crab. poor thing.

 

[Salt4Us]

Poor thing