After looking for OceanGate’s Titan submarine for four days, the terrible truth has been found.
The US Coast Guard has stated that each one 5 individuals who had been on OceanGate’s doomed submersible died. The supply had a “catastrophic implosion” on its way to the famous sinking of the Titanic. On the sea floor, about 500 meters from the bow of the famous Titanic wrecks, the parts of the submersible have been found.
In this long article, Hindustan Times goes into detail about how this big disaster happened and what will happen next.
A terrible event led to the death of the submarine Titan
The Titan submarine was hit by a “catastrophic implosion” with a lot of force and speed. This was caused by the huge pressure at the bottom of the ocean.
Even though no one knows exactly how deep the Titanic sank when it sank, its remains are on the seafloor of the North Atlantic about 3,800 meters (12,400 feet) below the surface, where the water pressure is a whopping 6,000 pounds per square inch (psi).
To put this in perspective, the average pressure at sea level is 14.7 psi, while a big great white shark’s bite has around 4,000 psi of force. Within milliseconds, the Titan would have fallen apart because of the immense water pressure of the deep sea, which could have been caused by a mistake in the ship’s hull or design.
The submarine went down
The doomed submersible Titan, made by OceanGate, had already been to the famous Titanic wreck on previous trips. But during a recent dive to check out the site, the ship went missing. It didn’t have much oxygen, so the US, Canadian, and French governments quickly set up a search and rescue effort.
The operation came to a sad end Thursday evening when the US Coast Guard reported that Titan’s wreckage had been found near the Titanic wreck site.
Officials said that the pieces of the submerged vehicle that were found were “consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” This showed how bad the lost submersible’s fate was.
What the expert says
Roderick Smith, a professor of engineering at Imperial College London, says that the likely cause of the accident was a “failure of the pressure hull.” But to get a full picture of what happened, the pieces of the wreckage would have to be found.
Smith said in a message to the AFP news agency that it might be hard to figure out what happened because of how violent the implosion was.
Just minutes before the US Coast Guard confirmed the tragic deep-sea mission, OceanGate made a heartfelt statement about how sad they were for the five people on board.
OceanGate’s announcement said, “We now consider that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul Henri Nargeolet had been tragically lost.”
The next part of the statement captured the bold spirit of these explorers: “These men were real explorers who all had a strong sense of adventure and a strong desire to explore and protect the world’s oceans. During this terrible time, our thoughts are with these five people and all of their families. We’re sad that they’re gone because they brought life and happiness to everyone they met.”
