What Went Wrong on the Titan Submersible? Explained With Illustrations

on 18 June 2023 billionaire Hamish Harding shared this post on Instagram unknown to him this should be the last ever photo taken of him and his last ever post on the social media platform four days after this photo was taken Hamish Harding along with four others would be declared dead all victims of the doomed Titan submersible Expedition which set out to tour the wrecked side of the RMS Titanic the passengers on both the Titan were British businessman Hamish Harding Pakistani businessman suleimanda would French diver Paul Henry najiola and founder of Ocean Gate Expeditions and leader of the Expedition Stockton Rush each seat on the Fatal Expedition cost a quarter of a million dollars the Titan submersible and its Mothership the polar Prince left for the site of the armist Titanic's wreck from Saint John's City in Canada's Newfoundland on Friday 16th of June thank you at 7 am on 18 June Titan began its descent to the wreck of the RMS Titanic The Descent was supposed to take two hours or one hour and 45 minutes after it started this end Titan seized all communication with the mothership Titan had gone silent a submersible is a part of the submarine family but significantly smaller secondly submarines can leave a port Traverse the Seas and return to land on their own resources but a submersible needs a surface vessel to launched from refuel and stay in contact with the surface submersibles like the Titan only have enough power and resources for shorter expeditions Titan was designed to reach depths of 4000 meters or 13 000 feet the ocean's pressure at this depth is more than 380 times the atmospheric pressure on the surface but Titan was built to withstand this pressure and conduct inspection research and data collection it was also capable of carrying oxygen and resources for a 96 hour Expedition roughly 4 days nine hours after Titan launched the U.S Coast Guard received a report that it hadn't returned from the research vessel Pooler Prince Titan's Mothership Titan was Officially Missing by Monday 19 June several planes from the U.S and Canada converged on the Atlantic Ocean dropping sonar buoys capable of monitoring activity at depths of up to 4000 meters for any signs of title on 22nd June five days after Titan went missing the U.S Coast Guard said it had found debris from the Titan submersible below the wreck of the Titanic soon the Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan submersible had suffered a catastrophic implosion and that the five passengers on board were believed to be dead a catastrophic implosion takes place when the internal pressure of a system builds up to excess and unable to handle the pressure the system gives way in Titan's case this would have meant water rushing in along with immense pressure in an unsettling development the U.S Navy said that it had detected an implosion from the area on Sunday 18th June the day Titan had launched could this implosion have been averted were safety is overlooked on this Expedition [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 4min 8sec (248 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2023