A simulation created by an engineer shows how the OceanGate submarine could have imploded on the day of the tragedy that killed the five passengers, June 18. The entire process would have taken only 13,495 thousandths of a second and, according to Ronald Wagner, the occupants did not even have time to feel pain.
According to the engineer, the human brain needs 13 thousandths of a second to process the information it receives.
The Brazilian website G1 publishes a table of what happened during the implosion, according to a study by Ronald Wagner.
-0 milliseconds: The first damage to the carbon fiber coating occurs.
– 2,182 milliseconds: The hull is affected, reducing its original size by 50%.
– 3,274 milliseconds: the coating begins to deteriorate. The implosion occurs and the passengers are crushed by the compression force.
The Titan had a cylindrical cabin, relatively spacious for the ship’s size, made of carbon fiber. According to the engineer, the structure may have contributed to the implosion.
The submarine disappeared about 600 kilometers off the coast of Canada on June 18, about an hour after the expedition began, toward the wreckage of the Titanic, which is 3,800 meters from the surface.
Four days later, the probes participating in the search identified wreckage at the bottom of the sea. Hours later, authorities confirmed it was the remains of the OceanGate submarine.
On board were British tycoon Hamish Harding; former French Navy Commander Paul-Henri Nargeolet; OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush; and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
A few weeks ago, a former OceanGate consultant, Rob MacCallum, assured that the five crew members who traveled on the submarine “Titan” to visit the Titanic wreck knew there was a problem with the submarine just before the “catastrophic implosion” occurred.
According to Rob MacCallum, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine, the ship attempted to return to the surface after releasing some weights that kept the submarine on the sea floor.
To the specialist, the submarine “lost weight”, indicating that the “mission was aborted” and that the “Titanium crew knew about the problem before the implosion”, trying to return to the surface, but without success.
Communications with the submarine were lost about 45 minutes into the dive, according to OceanGate Expeditions, and the Titan’s wreckage was about 3,810 feet deep and nearly 488 feet from Titanic.
Source: DN
