Crab vs. Pipe - Pipe wins!

[chip104]

apologies if this has been posted already, but I just saw this now. Here's the description off the orginal webpage (which has been taken down due to bandwidth):

This is a video taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch ... remember that width) in a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipeline is 0 psig, while the pressure outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along....

Here's the gist of it:

Here's the video:
http://burningsmell.org/crab/crabvspipe1.mpg


That crab got OWNED!

 

[Haiko]

Wow... that crab must felt like crap ;-)

 

[Nomad]

I'll need to remember that method the next time I am trying to get that last peice of crabmeat way up in the claw...

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

pWN3D!!!! LMAO!! "All your crab are belong to us."

 

[CyberFish]

Oh man, that crab went from 186 bar to 0 bar in just a few seconds, I hope he remembered to equalise! There's a point, do crabs get bent???

 

[SteveAD]

no the crab didn't get bent, he got BROKE!!

 

[ScubaMilo]

just plain cool to see physics at work. huh!

 

[dlndavid]

man that sucks

 

[Wristshot]

just plain cool to see physics at work. huh!

Physics? Wouldn't that be Hydraulics? Or perhaps Pneumatics?

Idling mind . .

W

(Cute David!)

 

[ch0ppersrule]

WOW !! I am speechless and the only thing that comes to mind is : WOW!!