• twistedtxb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s crazy. I imagine that at such depths, organic remains take longer to decompose than usual.

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      1 year ago

      From what I’ve learned from the titanic I’m pretty sure they decompose faster as I know that even the clothes and bones of the titanic victims have decomposed we were only able to count victims based on the souls of their shoes that being the only part of the bodys that didn’t decompose

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        1 year ago

        To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn’t discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet.