This one was my favorite so far. I love the sound of the ice cracking under the pressure, and seeing the gas cavities become filled with water. And as always, I enjoy your unique humor. Thanks!
It just keeps getting better! The humor is outstanding! So underrated as far as subs go. Happy to say I been here since the first Video and I love every new Drop!
1:08 Damn, I was just about to crush water into ice VII with my own hands since I lack this machine but your disclaimer stopped me from doing it otherwise, thanks for looking out for us!
I always learn something new from your channel. I’ve heard about the different phases of water but never in the detail you presented. Water inclusions in diamond under such pressure - who would have guessed.
In Portsmouth England there’s a hyperbolic trials facility where a person can get into a chamber that can raise the pressure much like your dropzone canister. It’s for submarine training.
I really appreciate the science lesson afterwards. It gives real context to the amazing sights you produce in your little death tube! I wonder how many wealthy people have pressurised aquariums with the rarest fish ever seen in them...
I’d be interested in knowing how much energy/electricity your chamber consumes achieving these pressures/depths. Is it relatively efficient? Or is it an energy hog?
Wow … that’s scary. Challenger deep is twice what your chamber can do, whew. That’s serious pressure. Just researching the ice diagram is amazing. Complex stuff. Thanks for this!
No problem. If the channel takes off later, I was thinking I may build a Challenger Deep version of the chamber if there's any interest. It would be a slightly smaller chamber though.
Are you able to do a video where you show how your whole setup works? Such as what kind of pumps are used to increase the pressure and also how your chamber seals closed. Also, was the hyperbaric pressure chamber made yourself or bought? By the way, keep up the great work. I hope your channel grows because it’s hands down the best channel that I’ve seen for doing these kinds of tests.
Thanks for your support! In episode 15 I talk a bit about it. I'll probably expand on it more when I do an intro video. I designed the chamber, sourced the material and had the parts made at a machine shop.
Not sure if you've ever shown it, but can you please show the inner workings of the pressure vessel's machanics to get such high pressures? Is it a hydraulic press or motor that feeds it?
This was definitely an interesting experiment. I could have the pump struggling at around 14,000 feet though. Would be pretty cool if that could simulate the pressures in the challenger deep, but still the depth of the Titanic is pretty cool anyway. Love the experiments.
Would it be possible to rapidly de-pressure the system without damaging it? It would be interesting to seeif the ice explode from the compressed air inside the cubes.
Someone else mentioned Dry Ice and I agree. I would like to see it in a glass jar with a waterproof cover on it that will implode (the cover) at around 1/2 mile. The water would leak in and I wonder if it would start to sublimate? Also a second test with a big chunk of the dry ice in the chamber with nothing protecting it as the pressure was increased.
Can a chamber be built that can withstand extreme pressures, instead of using lasers on microscopic samples for microseconds? Is there a pressure beyond which even the walls of even the strongest, thickest chamber would break?
For another engineering challenge, make a chamber that does the opposite and take things to the top of Everest and beyond to make things go kaboom instead of crunch. 😁
Great video! Sorry, but I may not completely understand. But what was the idea, except from displaying something awesome? I imagine that if you had been able to get ICE7, would all the water have been that, so in this experiment did you manage to put ICE1H under the max pressure we can get in the ocean? It could be amazing and world's first if you could put a dead blubber fish under its natural pressure! :-)
What about dry ice? You should be able to do the same thing with dry ice and see what happens right? It might help to pre cool the water in the chamber first so it lasts longer but it should make for a neat show
What if you place a bag of fresh water in the chamber filled with salt water and cool the chamber to the freezing point of fresh water and then release the pressure? Visually, I think it would be an interesting curiosity, especially taking the bag of frozen water out of the chamber.
Idea for the video: Make a model canister that will be somewhat rigid and transparent, add couple drops of oil or diesel fuel. Will it combust during implosion?
Couldn't you not use water in around your ice and maybe try using a gas around the ice to test all kinds of things with ice cubes and maybe dry ice in cubes form without water ...
