but you don't want to buy your buttons there

so i was reading one of bill bryson's books (what's new, right?) and i read came across a passage that nearly made me shit myself (as i almost did the first 3 times i read this book). the passage is as follows:

in the days of diving suits-the sort that were connected to the surface by long hoses-divers sometimes experienced a dreaded phenomenon known as "the squeeze." this occurred when the surface pumps failed, leading to a catastrophic loss of pressure in the suit. the air would leave the suit with such violence that the hapless diver would be, all too literally, sucked up into the helmet and hosepipe. when hauled to the surface, "all that is left in his suit are his bones and some rags of flesh," the biologist j.b.s.haldane wrote in 1947, adding for the benefit of doubters, "
this has happened."


jesus fucking christ! this is most likely what "his suit" looked like. oh good god!



this is more my speed; cartoonish and definitely not based in reality