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It would suck if they saw it coming, like slow leaks in the cabin or a crack forming in the view port... they would not have had to worry about it for long but they still may have had time to panic which would be quite shiddy
Oof yeah, damn. Or having the vessel slowly fill up with water or something. Honestly any of the possible death scenarios sound terrifying, hopefully it wasn't prolonged suffering.
At that depth, it's not "slowly" filling up with water. As soon as the hull is breached, it would violently implode inside of a second.
Ahh, yeah, you're right.
It's not a pleasant process, but a catastrophic failure would be ideal from a "way to go" standpoint.
By comparison the USS Thresher had a small brazing leak, followed by a freezing of the compressed air they tried to fill the ballast tanks with to emergency surface, and then got to experience the bulkheads imploding and slowly be crushed as they sank. There's audio from nearby ships of it imploding online and it's pretty terrifying to listen to.
It was likely pretty quick yes
This is an example of an accident of decompression: