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Originally Posted by jyl
Is this consistent with the idea that the remains were fragmentary - not whole or mostly whole bodies?
What I've read is that decomposition and scavenging are both slow at great depth. One article had comments from a French doctor who examined bodies recovered from two airliner crashes in 2009 where the wreckage was found at 13,000 ft depth and bodies were recovered by robotic vehicles that went into the fuselages. "Perich told Newsweek bodies he had seen that had been brought up from 400 bars of pressure "presented an exceptional state of preservation." This was "due to the absence of oxygen, light and current at this depth and a temperature of the order of 2 to 3 degrees [Celsius, or 35-37F], allowing good preservation of the corpses." " The airline crash victims did not, of course, experience near-instant implosion.
So for the CG to both not know whose remains it has and still be calling them "presumed" human remains suggests, perhaps, that they are more like bits and pieces?
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The USAF tries to recover the bodies of air crew after a crash. Often in very hard impacts and fires all they find is as little as a foot or other body part, the rest is just gone. One human foot is enough for them to have a full funeral.
The victims in Maui are burned to just bones, and in some cases the bones will be scattered by the debris of the house falling on them. The bones will be nearly cremated. They will have a really hard time identifying the dead.
Implosion is a bad way to die, but it beats most cancer deaths, or ALS.