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The pressure is only crushing if there’s a pressure differential. If the pressure inside the body and inside the cells of the animal is the same as the outside (which is what you’d expect for an animal born at this depth) then there is no crushing effect whatsoever.
excuse me but that crab is gorgeous there definitely is crushing at that depth