bunjywunjy:
tomcriuse:
genuine answer: they could have survived the initial sinking, but would have died pretty quickly from pressure sickness or starvation. lobsters are offshore animals that need rocky habitats in which to hide and find food. they usually aren’t found in much more than 1,500 feet of water normally.
the Titanic is 12,500 feet down, and resting on the silty intercontinental ocean floor that is essentially a massive underwater mudflat with only an occasional rock to be seen.
maybe the lobsters survived the pressure change and wiggled out of their tank and found their way out of the wreckage, but this habitat is a desert to them. there was nothing for them there.
realistically though they were probably immediately picked off by the sleeper and sixgill sharks that would have come from HUNDREDS of miles around to scavenge the Titanic’s human cargo. sorry!
damn, what a great day to be a deep sea shark though. the Titanic was like the most unimaginably huge whalefall for them. they probably still tell stories about it to the younger sharks today.
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