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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have seen some photos of a standard Styrofoam coffee cup before and after being put under the pressure of the deep ocean. It just gets so compressed it is the size of a thimble. I certainty don't know just what happens to humans exposed to those pressures, but I suspect the flesh is just shredded, and the bones crushed. It would not be a pleasant site.

As I remember, the USAF said they needed only as much as a foot and ankle to say they have enough of a body to bury.

styrofoam is foam, which means that it's mostly air (hence the insulating properties). It's not a solid object or fluid filled. The human body has very little air in it, it's mostly fluid.

In the experiment video there's a bubble of water in view of the camera. The bubble shrank a bunch before the light bulbs, bottles, etc... were crushed. Those items were crushed because they were full of air. Air is compressible, and fluid is generally not compressible.