2023-07-24 17:02:12
It’s been nearly a month since the Titan submarine tragically imploded on its descent to the wreck of the Titanic, but social media’s morbid fascination with the event doesn’t seem to be fading.
A video depicting how the submersible imploded has gone viral, racking up more than 10 million views since it was posted on YouTube in early July. The narrator explains in detail how implosions differ from explosions and what the disaster would have looked like.
The Titan began its journey to the wreckage of the Titanic on June 18. Soon following, he lost contact with the people on the surface. The US Coast Guard later revealed the ship had suffered a “catastrophic implosion”, following ocean-going robots found debris from the submersible on June 22.
Officials later said “suspected human remains” had been recovered from the site.
The video simulating the implosion was posted by AiTelly, an account specializing in “3D engineering animations”.
The narrator explains that in the case of the Titan, the implosion was caused by high hydrostatic pressure from the surrounding water, which happened in a fraction of a millisecond.
“As the submersible was in the depths of the ocean, it felt the force on its surface due to the pressure of the water,” the video’s narrator said. “When this force becomes greater than the force the hull can withstand, the ship implodes violently.”
The animation demonstrates how the submersible violently closed in on itself, noting that the debris was found just 1,600 feet from the wreckage of the Titanic, in five different parts.
The victims were Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman Dawood, 19, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and Stockton Rush, 61.
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