"There's No Bodies To Recover, The Implosion Is So Rapid" | Former US Navy Captain on Titanic Sub

talk about that joining me now David Market who is a former United States Navy captain and I assume David that you were very much listening to that press conference delivered by the U.S Navy um in our evening our time afternoon your time but um actually it was incredibly polished bit of communications actually the way they gave us the information that they have so far but of course there's still so much left to find out um in terms of the information that that we do have about what happened to this vessel were you surprised no not really I think this was the most likely scenario I think uh what they were saying was that this implosion happened as the vessel was on its initial descent an hour and 45 minutes into their Journey to the Titanic they hadn't quite reached it yet they were still a little bit above it and off the bow of the Titanic when something catastrophic happened to the submarine and when they say catastrophic implosion it is a instantaneous destruction of the vessel and and and instantaneous death for everyone on board probably they didn't even perceive that they were in danger and then they were gone and then the pieces and end up on the seabed it's that for some people I've heard sort of saying this evening you know we're clutching at straws here to try and find an outcome that is not as horrifying as we all hoped and the instantaneous nature of it some people say that somehow provides some relief in knowing that let's talk a bit about um the role of the U.S Navy and all of this but I think quite interesting on this as well something they've pointed out in that press conference there's a few jurisdictions involved in this and there's people from Britain uh there's people based in Dubai on the ship as well that was Hamish Harding and the gentleman of British citizens were originally from Pakistan shazada Darwood and Suleiman Darwood as well as they were talking about the complication of this being far out at sea but covering all these different sort of international bases so how do you think the coordination of that mission has gone so far yeah it seems pretty heroic to me it's complicated just because of the physics and the nature of the thing it's two-hour airplane flight from Boston and an hour airplane flight from Saint John Newfoundland there at least four four different countries involved in responding including commercial entities there's different government agencies uh Navy's providing equipment the Air Force is flying it the Canadians are letting them land there and get uh hushing them through customs and so that that sense of coordination can only be described as heroic and inspiring I agree with you there I think I've been um quite moved by the rapid assembly of all of these different for you know operations trying to rescue these men um we were getting reports already that some vessels and Personnel are already being demobilized from the site of course some equipment and some vessels will remain and do some of that search and rescue but what do you think the coming days will be like in terms of the rest of that operation well we don't need the ships that are involved with say that for example there was a ship that had a hyperbolic decompression chamber we we don't need that anymore uh I'm happy to see that some of the ships are remaining especially the ones with the more capable rovs I'm hoping that they can collect the pieces of the submarine and bring it back to the surface where we can potentially be reassembled as much as possible and analyzed so we understand what was it what was the defect or the flaw that caused the implosion on the way down do you just before do you think we underestimate um the power of the sea yes we definitely underestimate the power of the sea people get in trouble at Sea all the time we underestimate the intensity of waves and we underestimate the pressure for example people were asking about uh recovery of the bodies there's no bodies uh I I hate to say it but there's no bodies to recover this implosion is so rapid it compresses the air in your lungs instantaneously compressed of something about this size and then if there was anything left it's been down there for a week so I would be really really surprised to see any bodies we just don't on our normal lives if we don't experience the kind of forces that are being to that we are subjected to at these depths in the ocean in our normal lives we don't normally learn so much either about oceans for the rest of us and about the Navy and about the operations look Captain uh David it's been fascinating talking to you thank you

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Length: 4min 51sec (291 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 22 2023