OceanGate sub: Video shows how implosion likely happened | LiveNOW from FOX

latest now, on the tragic end to the search for that. submersible. carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic. The Coast Guard saying that Titan submersible suffered an apparent implosion killing all five people on board. We're now getting a look at how that implosion happened. Ashley Rodriguez, with our Fox Five, New York team has been covering this and joins us now with the latest. Ashley. Thank you so much for being here. Hey, good morning, Josh. Yeah. Sadly. we're learning. Dang, that some experts were not surprised by the implosion they believe the Titans hole, which is made up of carbon fiber. begin to crack under pressure under all that water And they say the company was warned about this as far back, as 2018. authorities are looking into what could have gone wrong on the Titan submersible only an hour and 45 minutes into the tourist trip to the Titanic wreckage and this video obtained by Fox 5 and created by Brad. Perry A star-filled studio. You can see a simulation of what possibly took place due to the high amount of pressure. causing the sub to crumble and about 30 milliseconds. All five passengers inside, are assumed to have been killed instantly. It does impose in thepressure, gives in the deeper you go. The the, the more pressure. it's 44 pounds per square inch per every 100 foot. change. those, who knew the victims, say they died doing what they loved He started thinking people as they were tired and they can go on and dothings that go love to do This was exactly that brand but new Reports, say the youngest passenger, nineteen-year-old Suleiman dawood. was terrified to get into the vessel but he did it to please his dad. Pakistani businessman shahzada dawood. who was also on board. The voyage took off last Sunday on Father's Day Titanic, director, James Cameron, part owner of trident submarines and a deep-sea Explorer. says the deaths on board ocean Gates Gates vessel were Tragic, and unnecessary. in light of the company being repeatedly warned about its experimental approach to deep-sea diving. So, Ocean Gate shouldn't have been doing what it was doing. I think that's pretty clear I wish I had been more vocal about that. Now. Ocean Gate has declined to comment on. its safety comment on far. And in the meantime, the Transportation safety board of Canada is now launching an investigation. into the implosion, Josh. Yeah, we are hearing from several different, folks who have said that they provided a warning, they said that this just did not appear to be a safe situation. even one guy I talked to a multi-millionaire who pulled out of the trip at the last minute said he did so because it just did not seem safe And as I mentioned it sounds like we're hearing that from other as well. Well. okay. so experts say that wrongful death and negligence lawsuits are likely They could be successful but the big thing to keep in mind is a challenge to any lawsuit would be that all of the passengers definitely signed waivers. that warn them that things could go wrong and even result in their deaths. So there's there's that as well. That's definitely an interesting. aspect there Ashley Rodriguez with our Fox Five, New York team. Thank you so much for

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Length: 3min 17sec (197 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2023