Exactly what happens to your body when you descend to the deepest depths of the ocean
You don't need to have thalassophobia to know that diving further and further into the deepest depths of ocean isn't the best thing for your body, but one horrifying simulation reveals exactly what would happen to your insides if you did just that.
There are plenty of dangers to be found in the deep blue sea, with everything from man-eating sharks to the horrors hiding in the darkness of the sea floor — and sometimes you could even find yourself in trouble the moment you jump in too.
The biggest danger for humans could be the ocean itself though, as while the threat of drowning is obvious, delving further and further into the sea's depths can have an incredible impact on our bodies.
Nothing shows that better than a new video from simulation king Zack D Films on YouTube, as he details the effects that each new distance milestone would have on your health if you were to take the plunge.
The first point where you would start to see an effect on your body is just 10 meters, which is only a tiny bit further than the bottom of a swimming pool's deep end.
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"The pressure would cause a painful squeezing in your middle ear and sinuses," Zack explains, and that's something that anyone who's gone underwater has likely felt in some capacity when swimming.
Going much further to 100 meters below sea level is when things start to really get dangerous though, as by the time you reach that particular milestone your lungs will have filled with blood in order to stop them from collapsing, which obviously isn't a great sign!
While it would be almost improbable for a human to keep going beyond this point, if you somehow reached the 1,000 meter mark your body would completely change as a result of the pressure.
Being this deep into the ocean causes even submarines to struggle, and gases inside your blood would start to become toxic. On top of this, any areas of your body that still had air would collapse.
Finally, at 3,000 meters below sea level the crushing force and pressure of the depth would have such an impact that your body would instantly implode, although you'd be dead far before you reach that point obviously.
"This is why deep ocean creatures are so squishy wiggly weird," writes one comment, with another adding that "the fishes are built like hulks for surviving such high pressure."
Another video from Cleo Abram reveals that the deepest anyone has reached on a single breath is 214 meters, although the furthest anyone has gone with scuba gear is a staggering distance of 332 meters, which is only a fraction taller than the Eiffel Tower.
It takes just 15 minutes for experienced divers to reach this far into the ocean, but comparatively the way back can take as long as 13 hours to make sure that the remaining nitrogen in your blood doesn't literally bubble inside your body as you head towards the surface, as that would be a recipe for disaster.