Developing Titanic submersible: ‘Catastrophic implosion’ doomed Titan — and the U.S. Navy likely heard it Sunday
The five-day search for a missing submarine and its five passengers came to a tragic end Thursday in the same icy, unforgiving depths of the Atlantic that claimed the Titanic 111 years ago.
There was a seemingly hopeful but ultimately futile blip 24 hours earlier, when a “banging” sound was detected, prompting the redeployment of an ROV to investigate that area of the ocean bed. OceanGate, the company which operated the Titan and ran the Titanic excursion — and whose CEO piloted the fated submersible — said shortly before that announcement that it feared the worst.CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans,” read the statement.
The debris was found 500 metres off the bow of the Titanic, in an area where the ocean bottom was smooth and clear of any Titanic wreckage. Mercifully — if that is the word — death for the occupants of the Titan would have been quick, almost instantaneous; crushed by the enormous weight of the ocean at pressures some 330 times greater than we experience at the surface.
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