The US Coast Guard told a press conference there was a “catastrophic implosion” on the lost submarine. Rear admiral Mauger confirmed that parts of the Titan were found approximately 1600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreck. He says he cannot confirm whether the five bodies can be recovered, saying it is an “incredibly unforgiving environment”.
They found the nosecone and the front end bell of the pressure hull.
The found another debris field with the other end of the pressure hull.
The carbon fiber and other materials got brittle after several uses and trips. It was incredible pressures and extreme cold. It survived multiple trips but just like rubber can become brittle, so did the carbon fiber. A tiny imperfection rapidly became an implosion. This likely happens minutes after radio contact was lost on Sunday.
The Titan hull experienced 50 test dives, 6 commercial dives, and failed on the 7th dive. Stress fractures are from the multiple re-uses.
An implosion of a submarine would sound like a large explosion. This did not happen after sonar was deployed by the coast guard to search for the submarine.
The surface support ship must have missed the implosion.
UPDATE
Director James Cameron desribes how this tragedy was very preventable.
James Cameron knew that the submarine was lost on Monday. He said communications and location transponder was lost at the same time on descent.
James Cameron went three times deeper than the Titanic wreck in his own submarine that went to the bottom of the Marianas trench.
The submarine community wrote to the company to tell them to get the submarine certified.
James Cameron asked around to operators of hydrophones and sonar. They confirmed the loud bang at the same time as transponder loss.
There was no deep ocean search. The remote operated vehicle went to the last known location and found the wreckage in hours.
The US Coast Guard and Navy were aware of the situation (lost communication, lost transponder, bang on sonar).
There was no deep submarine disaster for 63 years before Oceangate. There were some shallow submarine fatalities in the 1960s.
This was a tragedy that was very avoidable. They should not have cut corners on vehicle to take paying passengers.
They should not have used materials which would deteriorate over several trips and fail catastrophically.
The implosion was in milliseconds. It is like 50 lbs of TNT. It takes about 250 milliseconds for nerves to send signals to the brain. There would be no sensation of the implosion. You are then boom you are gone. There is no body to recover.
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According to the Navy, they picked up the sound of the implosion a couple hours into the trip, on a strategic sonar system designed for detecting submarines. In fact, that allowed the Navy to give the searchers a location to look for the debris.
Yeah, they basically knew they were gone since the weekend.
Only confirmed until they found visual confirmation of the debris, and felt like it.
What I see from a video is that the front separates from the rest to hup in. Im no engineer but i love mechanics and I find it a strange design, isnt the “ring” around the openingdoor then more prone to pressure from the sides? I also heard the window I think it was only being allowed for up to 1500 meters. Rip crew.
RIP. They sought this experience, and were taking a calculated risk.
Not that such a thing will stop the grieving relatives from suing the sub company. But I presume there are some small letters in the contract, just for these eventualities.
My bet is that that crew didn’t miss anything and just played dumb
My guess is that you aren’t playing dumb.
The Titan hull experienced 50 test dives, 6 commercial dives, and failed on the 7th dive. The experiment successfully identified the lifetime of the hull. Stress fracture is cumulative.