Passengers of the “Titan” submersible ship, whose wreck was found in the Atlantic on June 22, died quickly and painlesslyIt airs on Friday TV channel CNN.
Experts interviewed by the TV company think that the bodies of the dead are unlikely to be found.
As Florida International University professor Eileen Maria Marty noted, the destruction of the underwater vehicle’s hull happened “incredibly fast” in a fraction of a millisecond. “All of this probably happened before people inside realized there was a problem. [было] painless,” he said.
By contrast, Blair Thornton, a professor at the University of Southampton, compared the pressure the Titan experienced during the destruction to the Eiffel Tower falling into a bathtub.
Roderick Smith, a professor at Imperial College London, said that if carbon fiber parts of the submersible are found, you can try to understand the reasons for what happened to the underwater vehicle. “Carbon fiber breaks down under the influence of internal structural defects. “The joints between carbon fiber and titanium require very careful study,” he said.
According to Smith, the “explosion” can be so powerful that “it can be very difficult to determine the sequence of events.”
Nikolai Shabalin, director of the Naval Research Center at Moscow State University, whose opinion is quoted, says the destruction of the submersible and the death of the crew may have been caused by accumulated problems, including the integrity of the hull. TASS.
Disaster where the Titanic sank
The loss of the underwater vehicle became known on 18 June. Inside the submersible, designed to take tourists to the wreck of the Titanic, were billionaire Hamish Harding, OceanGate founder Stockton Rush, professional aquatic sailor Paul-Henri Narjolet and businessman Shahzada Davud and his son Suleman.
The wreckage of the Titanic, which sank after colliding with an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912, is located 600 km off the coast of Newfoundland at a depth of 3800 m.
Communication with the crew of the bath tub was cut off, and according to calculations, the oxygen supply on the ship ended on June 22 at 14:08 Moscow time. Thursday evening discovered wreckage of the apparatus, after which all the people on board were declared dead.
‘Titan’ owners in 2022 reported its ‘cyclic fatigue’, reports NBC.
Will Kohnen, president of the Marine Technology Association, also says the bathtub is not approved for deep diving. “There are only 10 of them in the world. [частных] Fully certified divers who can dive to a depth of 4,000 m or more [аппарата компании] OceanGate,” he said. CBC.
The publisher said Kohnen was one of the experts who warned Stockton Rush that using Titan without a certificate could lead to tragedy and “serious consequences for the entire industry.”
At the same time, in the United States where OceanGate Expeditions is registered, there is no law requiring underwater vessels to obtain any certification.
Against this background, Guillermo Sonlein, co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, pointed out that the company is “dedicated to safety.” The problem, he says, lies in the fact that “there aren’t many safety rules for deepwater craft, and most of them are outdated”.
“The expert teams are in the field, who will be collecting data over the next few days, weeks, maybe months, and it will take a long time before we know exactly what’s going on there,” he thinks.
according to the newspaper GuardOceanGate Expeditions has brought a total of about 60 tourists and 20 researchers to the Titanic disaster site since 2021.