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No. Ambient water pressure (like air pressure) is uniformly distributed - unlike, say, the bilateral crushing force of a vise. Also, fleshy bodies are mostly liquid and therefore incompressible.
I assume when deep-sea critters are brought to the surface and “explode,” there’s some expansion of internal gases going on.
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