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Conditions on Titanic sub could turn the bodies into ‘mummies,’ expert says

The five people trapped inside the Titanic-bound tourist sub could find their bodies turned into “mummies” due to frigid underwater temperatures and the lack of oxygen in the pressurized vessel, experts said.

Nicholas Passalacqua, a director of forensic anthropology at Western Carolina University, surmised that if the five passengers died aboard the Titan, their bodies would be oddly preserved inside the submersible.

“Generally in an environment without oxygen, remains will not decompose much because the micro and macro organisms that would work to consume and decompose the tissues will be unable to survive,” Passalacqua told Insider.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/can-bodies-in-titanic-sub-can-decompose-without-oxygen-experts-explain/

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