During the last hours, the five passengers of the tourist submersible 'Titan', the submarine lost while visiting the remains under the sea of the Titanic, have been given up for dead by OceanGate and the United States coast guard.
Apparently, the US Navy detected on Sunday the sound of an underwater implosion that was probably that of the Titan submersible, service officials recently confirmed to The Washington Post. They even claim that they have found remains of the submersible that match the "catastrophic implosion" of the submarine.
The implosion. A tragedy that has triggered questions about implosions: What exactly are they and why do they happen? Well, an implosion is the opposite of an explosion, it happens when an object contracts towards its center due to the action of external or internal forces, in this case due to the pressure exerted by the sea at the depth at which the submarine was located. .
This was explained by the TikTok account of @tromepe, showing in a video the recreation of the reduction of the submersible due to the pressure exerted by the sea against the submarine as they approached to visit the remains of the Titanic.
“By instantaneously collapsing the pressure, the hull would immediately heat the air in the submarine to around the surface of the temperature of the sun, while a wall of metal and seawater crushed one end of the boat against the other, all in around 30 milliseconds," he says in the video.
Declarations of the co-founder. In this sense, the co-founder of the OceanGate company, Guillermo Söhnlein, explained in an interview with the BBC that when operating at these depths, the pressure is so great that any failure would cause an instantaneous implosion.
Tragedy. Therefore, it is believed that the submersible most likely suffered a hull breach and imploded due to pressure. But not only that, an implosion of these conditions only has a tragic end for the passengers: death.
