'MythBusters' video shows what a deep-sea implosion does to a faux human in a scuba suit

• A clip from an old episode of the TV show "MythBusters" has resurfaced on Twitter.

• An account posted the clip as a comparison to what happened on the Titan submersible.

• But what is shown in the video clip is under extremely different circumstances from the lost sub's.

Typical diving suits are pressurized so the diver doesn't have to worry about decompression sickness when they resurface. But if something goes wrong with the suit's pressurization, it could be catastrophic for the diver.

To understand what exactly would happen to a diver in this bleak situation, the TV show hosts Jessi Combs, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara conducted a science experiment for episode 19, season seven, of "MythBusters," according to Newsweek.

They created a human-shaped mannequin from pig parts. The meat dummy came complete with bones, muscle, fat, skin, and a midsection of guts. Then they put the mannequin in an old diving suit and sank it 300 feet underwater, where the pressure is about nine times as great as that at sea level.

The Twitter account ChudsOfTikTok recently resurfaced the clip from the episode in an attempt to conceptualize what may have happened to the Titan passengers who were reported dead after their submersible imploded during its descent to the Titanic wreck site.

It's worth noting that the passengers were not wearing diving suits and they were likely much deeper than 300 feet when the submersible was thought to have imploded — meaning the implosion that the meat mannequin experienced in the "MythBusters" experiment was probably much slower than what the Titan passengers may have experienced. They likely died within milliseconds.

In the clip below, the rapid change in air pressure once the air supply is cut forces most of the suit's meaty contents into the helmet as the suit itself collapses inward. Warning: The process is a gruesome sight.

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