The US Coast Guard said they recovered debris from a missing submersible that was en route to the Titanic wreck, and that there are no survivors.
Experts recovered five pieces of debris that belonged to the Titan submersible. Following the discovery, the Coast Guard alerted the family members of those who were on board, saying that there was little chance of survivors.
The debris found indicates “a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said in a press conference in the US city of Boston.
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One word: TORPEDO
Why don't they release the photos of the pieces? They have no problem using tax payers money for their investigations but they are stingy with sharing the data?
22 MILLION POUNDS OF FORCE. everyone in that sub was crushed down to the size of a penny
They had a submarine expert on there? He of all people should have known that Ocean Gate’s sea vessels are not certified.
Recover bodies? What bodies? Bodies did not exist a millisecond after it imploded.
The first historic dive of this new sub with billionaires and the owner supposedly on it and no one records them getting in and it has no gps tracker and it goes missing day before hunter gets a slap on the wrist and no media coverage of it, only the wacky sub
35 elephants on ones shoulders is insane
Just goes to show
"At some point safety is just pure waste." -Stockton Rush. 5 minutes of research and it's just absurdly obvious this thing was a disaster waiting to happen. Secondly, they knew the second they checked the data that this thing imploded, and everybody was dead. A Soviet Sub sank in the middle of the Pacific in 1968, over half a century ago and even the SOSUS Navy technology was able to locate it and identify it as an implosion, or maybe even an explosion. One check of the data and it was crystal clear what happened. My condolences to the families of the victim. I have not the slightest clue how anyone could be so hubristic regarding such a dangerous endeavor.
NOT MUCH NEWS NOWADAYS, EXCEPT ABOUT THIS IMPLOSION OF A SUBMARINE, WHICH EVEN A MIDDLE SCHOOLER KNOWS. IMPLOSION AD INFINITUM. BECOMING A COMEDY SHOW.
WELL, INDEED IT IS. AND YA CAN'T BLAME MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, FINDING THIS TRAGEDY, A COMEDY.
THE SADDEST PART HERE, IS THE SON, WHO WAS FORCED BY HIS TOO FOO KEN MACHO SHOW OFF OF A FATHER.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM, WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR MONEY.
HILARIOUS HUMAN CREATURES. SERVES YA RIGHT.
True explorers? They were extreme tourists who wanted to gawk at at an underwater grave.
For all last week i've heard all kind of theories and hipothesis of what could have hapened but what if they were ascending slowly? That's an option that was discarded too early in all of this for some unknown reason. How could they be located if they were lifting up slowly? They lost some parts of the ship it seems but they could still be inside that carbon fiber ship.
from i see the sub ik that was a red flag
A submarine expert…
If humans were meant to be underwater we would have gills and could breathe. It's time to leave the Titanic alone forever. Respect it…RIP to all who died there..
From a video that was posted on Twitter of the unloading of the parts, these were the pieces recovered: part of the outer fiber glass cladding (this is outside the pressure vessel, one of the two titanium hemispheres, noticeably with the acrylic porthole window missing, one of the two titanium rings (all parts of the craft are a fixed to one of the two rings), the propulsion unit with what looks like batteries or electronic enclosure (looked quiet intact), and the two metal sleds Noticeably absent where the actual pressure vessel (made from carbon fiber/raisin) itself. I am not entirely sure, but it appears the propulsion unit was outside the pressure vessel, which perhaps the reason for the wireless controller, so that no wires had to penetrate the pressure vessel. The craft had two vertical and two horizontal ducted propellers mounted to the titanium rings. I believe, the propulsion unit was mounted to the rear of the pressure vessel within the glass fiber tail enclosure. The emergency backup system functioned by ditching weights that were hung on the sleds, by rocking the vessel. Your mileage may vary: I am not a submarine expert, just a technologist with basic understanding of machinery. Hence, take my observations with a grain of salt.
If I should make a wild guess for a cause, I would look at the possibility of cycle fatigue, that either caused the outright failure of the carbon fiber drum section (perhaps a bit similar to the de Havilland Comet structural failures), or caused water to penetrate at one of the two rings. However, other causes may also be feasible, such as failure at the acrylic window.
I'm not understanding something: How is it these pieces are in such large chunks, when according to all sorts of "experts," the passengers were instantly obliterated into "pink mist" or "vaporized"? How can a force that's powerful enough to in milliseconds incinerate the passenger compartment but leave the outer portions of the capsule in such big intact pieces? I've read all sorts of theories about what happened in those milliseconds, and the common denominator is that the passengers were instantly turned to powder or mulch. Now I know that large scraps of metal are more durable than human flesh, BUT, again, if the passenger compartment was instantly turned to a billion particles, wouldn't this force do the same to the outer ends?
Guess that guy wasn't a submarine "expert" in the definition of the real context of the title then. More like an expert on not having common sense. Too bad for his family.
More information and background on the 'Titan' submersible tragedy: https://www.dw.com/en/titanic-sub/t-65985950