Titanic Submersible Was Destroyed in ‘Catastrophic Implosion’ Killing 5 Aboard Instantly
The desperate rescue operation to rescue a technologically advanced submersible carrying five people on an expedition to the iconic ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic has ended, after it was determined the vessel was destroyed in a ‘catastrophic implosion’ that killed all 5 aboard instantly.
A deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic was found in pieces from a “catastrophic implosion” that killed everyone aboard, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, ending a multinational five-day search for the vessel.A robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field from the submersible Titan on Thursday morning on the seabed some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, 2 1/2 miles (4 km) beneath the surface, in a remote corner of the North Atlantic, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters.The Titan, operated by the U.S.-based company OceanGate Expeditions, had been missing since it lost contact with its surface support ship on Sunday morning about an hour, 45 minutes into what should have been a two-hour dive to the world’s most famous shipwreck.Five major fragments of the 22-foot (6.7-meter) Titan were located in the debris field left from its disintegration, including the vessel’s tail cone and two sections of the pressure hull, Coast Guard officials said. No mention was made of whether human remains were sighted.
Officials are now reporting that a top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines heard indications that suggested the Titan submersible imploded hours after the submersible began its voyage.
The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after the submersible’s disappearance Sunday, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the Coast Guard commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.While the Navy couldn’t say definitively the sound came from the Titan, the discovery played a role in narrowing the scope of the search for the vessel before its debris was discovered Thursday, the officials said.“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
As I mentioned in my initial report, the pressure at the levels the Titan was headed hit 380 atmospheres. Humans do not survive at that depth without specialized equipment that works.
Dr. Dale Molé, the former director of undersea medicine and radiation health for the US Navy, told DailyMail.com the deaths would have been quick and painless, dying almost instantly by the extraordinary forces exerted by the ocean at depth.Molé said: ‘It would have been so sudden, that they wouldn’t even have known that there was a problem, or what happened to them.’It’s like being here one minute, and then the switch is turned off. You’re alive one millisecond, and the next millisecond you’re dead.’…Molé said: ‘The pressure hull is the chamber where the occupants reside. It sounds as though they had reached the bottom when the pressure vessel imploded, and usually, when it gives way, it gives way all at once.’It sounds like it was the carbon fiber cylinder that gave way and resulted in the implosion.’
For me, reports focused on the death of the 19-year old who joined the expedition with his father are the saddest aspect of the story.
The university student who was killed in the tragic Titanic submarine ‘implosion’ was ‘terrified’ about the trip and only joined the crew to please his dad for Father’s Day, his heartbroken aunt has revealed.Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, 19, were two of the five victims killed instantly when the OceanGate submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ just 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, according to the US Coast Guard….Tragically, Azmeh Dawood – the older sister of Mr Dawood, the vice chairman of Engro Corporation – told NBC News that her nephew informed a relative he ‘wasn’t very up for it’ but felt compelled to please his father, who was very passionate about the 1912 shipwreck.
The ocean is significantly deeper than the highest point on Earth’s surface (the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is 7,044 feet deeper than Everest is tall). The Titanic is located deeper than the Cuvier beaked whale will attempt to go, and that is the deepest diving mammal.
Traveling to the deep sea requires humility, a respect for the challenges of the environment, and top-notch engineering that will perfectly the enormous challenges…designed by the most qualified personnel regardless of race or sex.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY