Chris
But both those bodies recovered had disintegrated while being raised through warmer water and stronger currents to the surface, rescue officials said.
Now two Paris judges overseeing the recovery operation have said more decomposing bodies should not be brought up from the wreckage."
I wonder if loose bodies could be placed in an open-topped tank –
say, 2m x 0.7m x 0.7m (weight 1 tonne plus the weight of the tank itself) –
to bring them aboard ship in cold water.
I really think that what is likely happening is that evolved gasses in solution inside the bodies is literally blowing them apart on their way up. Sort of like a terrible case of the bends.
All that the people on the ship know is that the bodies look one way on the bottom and quite differently on the surface.
