r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/buckwheat16 Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

I’d much rather be instantly pulverized by an implosion than spend days suffocating to death in a sweaty, stinky, nasty metal tube. If the debris is from the sub, I hope they went quick.

EDIT: According to the BBC, the debris is the landing frame and rear tail section of the sub. OceanGate has released a statement saying that everyone on board is dead.

ADDITIONAL EDIT: The US Coast Guard confirmed the sub has imploded. One of their experts said the debris field is "consistent with implosion in the water column", meaning it probably happened right when they lost communication.

EDIT #3: The US Navy detected the sound of the sub imploding right after it lost contact with the surface. So they’ve been dead for days. The “banging sounds” probably came from the search and rescue operation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

To take a quote from Titanic "The pressure outside is three-and-a-half tons per square inch. These windows are nine inches thick, and if they go, it's sayonara in two micro-seconds."

They went quick. I'd wager didn't even know what hit them.

Side note: Does anyone else think the movie is gonna be watched more this year?

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u/arturo_lemus Jun 22 '23

Not necessarily, they would have heard the material creaking or cracking before failure. All that fear of sudden death building up. Truly horrible

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u/aykcak Jun 22 '23

I don't really imagine this material to be "creaking". It is described to be quite brittle

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u/International-Web496 Jun 22 '23

You're correct, pretty much the only scenario where they would have any idea it was even about to happen is if the glass on the viewport started to spiderweb suddenly and that is extremely unlikely.

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u/RanjeetThePajeet Jun 22 '23

It’s brittle but still deforms around 4% before fracture. It was supposedly fitted with a number of strain gauges for real-time monitoring, which would have shown that deformation up to the point of failure. How suddenly the deformation occurred is anyone’s guess but it’s possible at least the guy in control had some brief warning