If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?

BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world · edit-2 17 days ago

At 100 m the compression would be nil.

If you take it deep enough for there to be measurable compression and then pop it, nothing will happen because it’s already compressed.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

Depends on how much air is in there with the water.

Water itself is incompressible so the balloon won’t shrink that much, but there’s some air in there so it would shrink a bit.

The balloon’s popping action comes from being filled and expanded. It’s an elastic, so if something breaks it, it snaps back.

The only way that wouldn’t happen is if there was mostly air in there, and you went to the appropriate depth where that air was compressed down to its original volume.