It seems publications forget they don’t have to publish useless pain for family and friends.
Enquiring minds want to know!
Posted on 07/11/2023 9:35:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
The passengers that died on the Titan submersible would have been aware of the impending catastrophe for a minute before the implosion, an expert has said.
Spanish submarine expert José Luis Martín suggested the submersible lost stability due to an electrical failure that left it without propulsion, causing it to fall toward the seabed 'like an arrow vertically' with its porthole facing down.
'The Titan changed position and fell like an arrow vertically, because the 400 kilos of passengers that were in the porthole compromised the submarine. They all rushed and crowded on top of each other,' Martín added.
'Imagine the horror, the fear and the agony. It must have been like a horror movie.'
Due to the depth and the lack of both natural light and electricity, the group would have been in total darkness as they sank toward the bottom of the Atlantic, he said. He estimated that the sub began freefalling at a depth of around 5,600 feet and fell 'as if it were a stone and without any control' for about 3,000 feet until at around 8,600 feet it 'popped like a balloon' due to the rapidly changing pressure.
Martin suggested the passengers would have been piled on top of each other in terrifying total darkness throughout the fall, which would have lasted between 48 and 71 seconds.
The Titan submersible lost communications with its support vessel on Sunday, June 18, during a descent to the wreck of the Titanic 12,500 feet beneath the surface.
Days later, its debris was recovered. It was said to have suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'.
Tourists Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, French Navy pilot Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush all died on the submersible.
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Not you, but what’s the point of publishing this?
It seems publications forget they don’t have to publish useless pain for family and friends.
Enquiring minds want to know!
I don’t believe it.
Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” song says it all........
rushed ???
Shouldnt that be fell ???
Well I guess they got their money’s worth must have been thrilling
It’s a theory....
If it lost ballast to the point it would plummet like that, would it not mean their air was gone? I would think even in full dive mode the decent would be slower than what is described here. Any submariners out there can chime in and clear this up?
I’ve never seen so many demonstrations of various containers imploding until now. It’s journalistic porn at this point.
Spanish submarine expert…
The jokes write themselves.
More made of horse crap! They offer no proof of this claim, and there is no way for them to know.
Spanish submarine expert…
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The Orcas bit it.
When they realized their fate, they must have been crushed.
The sound of 50 year-old white males laughing hysterically was reportedly overheard. During press briefings.
It’s a version, for certain.
I’m on Tom’s side…
In other words, Pride Month.
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