Water is slightly compressible, and so are thick steel springs. Now imagine each vertical column of the ocean as a kilometers-tall spring. The top wire loops’ weight compresses the bottom loops with great force but there is no way this compression can be released because these columns are tightly packed inside the steel ocean’s volume and in every location at a specific depth there is the same pressure from the weight above. Unless… someone makes a hollow ball with atmospheric pressure inside and spirals down a spring, bearing the pressure difference between its inside and the loops of spring it’s wedged between… and then cracks. Whoever is inside is not surviving that.
Water is slightly compressible, and so are thick steel springs. Now imagine each vertical column of the ocean as a kilometers-tall spring. The top wire loops’ weight compresses the bottom loops with great force but there is no way this compression can be released because these columns are tightly packed inside the steel ocean’s volume and in every location at a specific depth there is the same pressure from the weight above. Unless… someone makes a hollow ball with atmospheric pressure inside and spirals down a spring, bearing the pressure difference between its inside and the loops of spring it’s wedged between… and then cracks. Whoever is inside is not surviving that.