All thirty people inside died of sudden explosive decompression.
The sudden decompression would kill them.
They meant that, if caught during sudden decompression, a crewman could duck into a chamber instead of having to struggle with a suit.
The pressure suits would give them enough time to get to the lifepod in the event of sudden decompression.
He remembered tales of guys who'd been blown apart by sudden decompression.
The Shadow was actually suffering from an attack of the "bends," produced by the sudden decompression from his quick trip to the outer air.
"A sudden decompression that caused the air to push things out as it escaped through the crack there on the side."
The possibility of sudden decompression was so slight that it had been ignored by the aeronautical engineers who built the Straton.
Most of the bodies had been stripped by the canister shot explosions or sudden decompression.
She'd seen what happened to the human body under sudden decompression in a vacuum.
