Since there’s a debris field, it means hull collapse. I would guess it was all over in 5 to 7 milliseconds.
No. of people who died on the Titanic: 1503 1508
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Not Mark Hamil’s character’s death in the Abyss creeped me out back then, and it’s doing it again today
You mean Michael Biehn’s character?
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The Abyss is such an underrated movie.
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It’s 4/5ths of a great movie. The last 1/5th…yikes!
They found the imploded wreck of the sub about 500 yards from the wreck of the Titanic.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1671957507269337113
Which begs the question: why did it take so long to find it when it was right where it was supposed to be?
Are we talking original or director’s cut?
Original. I know the director’s cut has much less of an aliens ex machina element to it.
Very much. It’s the only way to watch it.
Apparently the Navy heard an implosion sound shortly after the sub lost communications:
Ok, y’all who are smarter than I (that is all of you except 2 or 3), what caused the implosion? The intense pressure at that depth plus poor design/workmanship? Something else? What a foolhardy $250K adventure/tragedy.
Too early to tell but at that depth, the water pressure bearing down on any given object is roughly 376 times greater than that exerted by Earth’s atmosphere. Any kind of damage or defect or flaw in the submersible’s shape or build could compromise the integrity of the vessel.,
Evidently there were at least some concerns regarding the hull’s safety back in 2018.
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Well one thing I know about billionaires and their families is that they’re not particularly litigious so all this should fade from memory soon.
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This is when I wish they could just leave the family alone.
The older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood feels “absolutely heartbroken” that her brother and her 19-year-old nephew were aboard the Titan vessel.
“I feel very bad that the whole world has had to go through so much trauma, so much suspense,” Azmeh Dawood said in a phone interview this afternoon, speaking from the home in Amsterdam she shares with her husband.
“I feel like I’ve been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn’t know what you’re counting down to,” she said, fighting back tears. “I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them.”
Azmeh claimed that her nephew did not want to go on the submarine but agreed to take part in the expedition because it was important to his father, a lifelong Titanic obsessive. Suleman “wasn’t very up for it” and “terrified,” she claimed, explaining that the 19-year-old expressed his concerns to another family member.
“If you gave me a million dollars, I would not have gotten into the Titan,” she said.
Dude literally said, "I have broken some rules to make this. (…) The carbon fibre and titanium there is a rule that you don’t do that. Well, I did.”
-OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
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Saw this thread on Twitter, thought it was pretty interesting:
https://twitter.com/LadyDoctorSays/status/1671700989429297152?s=20
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Given that the tail cone of the Titan was found some distance away from the rest of the debris, it seems logical that it was the join between the carbon fibre and the titanium that failed. The cone would’ve been popped off as the main hull imploded.
Oh by the way, Oceangate had a $447K PPP loan forgiven.