r/interestingasfuck • u/ThugLeeVoguee • 1d ago

The implosion of the Titan submarine (OceanGate) was so rapid that the pain wasn't even registered by the brain. They didn't feel anything at all. Utterly instantaneous.

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u/EarthenMama 1d ago

Ew chunks.

This isn't news. The fear, though. They must have had at least several seconds of understanding that they were screwed, if not more.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 1d ago

Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack...at the first crack id be shiting bricks.

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u/CantaloupeLazy1427 1d ago

It was cracking the whole time, they sold them this as normal

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u/Hiraeth1968 1d ago

The asshole CEO no doubt kept telling them it was completely normal. “Seasonings the fibers,” I believe he called it. I hope the families sued the fuck out of his widow.

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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 1d ago

“It makes this noise all the time, nothing to worry about. We’ve made this trip plenty of times, this time will be no dif-“

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u/1B75__Penicillin 1d ago

The hell did the Widow do??

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u/Hiraeth1968 1d ago

She was part of the crew and involved in the project.

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u/1B75__Penicillin 1d ago

I doubt she was involved in the project in any sense of the word, she probably has zero technical knowhow, if she was in the crew she is dead

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u/Hiraeth1968 1d ago

She wasn’t on the final descent.

We just watched the documentary on the Titan. The guy was a fucking psychopath.

With him dead, his wife is the sole remaining employee of OceanGate and should be liable.

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u/SquirrelMemoryFail 1d ago

Whats the name of the doc?

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u/Hiraeth1968 1d ago

There are two. I don’t recall which one we saw.

Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster

Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster.

I think we saw Titan.

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u/SquirrelMemoryFail 1d ago

Thank ya! Ill see if I can find them and watch them.

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u/Lanteans 1d ago

She was an employee of the company and regularly participated in the expeditions. As far as I remember, some of the members of the (very wealthy) deceased families sued the company/organization and she is now directly defending the remains of her and her dead husband’s estate.

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u/florida-karma 1d ago

You know, there's literally nothing stopping you from looking up a fact before you publicly post your skepticism of it.

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u/1B75__Penicillin 1d ago

Hey look at it from the bright side, now more people can find out what happened

https://giphy.com/gifs/xN0op12VncKFfham8p

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u/TheRedIguana 1d ago

You think Stockton died while explaining to the others the cracks are nothing to be worried about?

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u/MaskYourDeviceID 1d ago

"including or not including gang violence" aahh moment lmao

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u/Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work 1d ago

Is that irony?

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u/MorgessaMonstrum 1d ago

Imagine he was mid-sentence on that

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u/OneSalientOversight 1d ago

"We didn't find any human remains but we did find some bricks"

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u/maryfisherman 1d ago

No this is one of the scariest scenarios imaginable

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u/sceadwian 1d ago

There was a simulation done, there wouldn't have been much of anything left but a mist.

Based on what I've heard they very possibly has no idea anything was going to happen.

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u/housevil 1d ago

Text logs between the sub and surface suggests they knew as much as 20 minutes beforehand things were going south, when they were descending too fast and were unable to abort.

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u/Chairshot_from_Space 1d ago

Based on what information? The logs they have didn't indicate anything was wrong. The last message that Titan relayed was "dropped 2 wts" which at the depth they were was a normal part of the operation.

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u/minimell_8910 1d ago

They made it up

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u/Armthrow414 1d ago

Abnormal at that depth. Well at least according to people interviewed by the coast guard and Canadian investigators. Yes, I read both reports. Both reports said weights were dropped earlier than normal.

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u/Lildatercreater 1d ago

Nope they probably didnt. A cracking noise would indicate the hull was compromised, but at the exact moment it was compromised, it gave way. Like a balloon that was popped. 

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u/EarthenMama 1d ago

OK, I'll go with that - it's comforting.

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u/tokyoevenings 9h ago

Well, Stockton radio that they were dropping weights, the only reason to do that is to return to the surface, so they absolutely knew they were in trouble. It unfortunately would’ve been several minutes if not more.

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u/Lower_Pass_6053 18h ago

This is the shit doctors and emts tell family of people that died in car crashes. I doubt we know the exact millisecond it took to implode.

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u/Epicardiectomist 1d ago

chunks? It was probably more like a smoothie.

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u/Yos13 21h ago

Several minutes of absolute terror as they were falling down in absolute darkness after power finally cut out for good. They did not feel the end but, they certainly felt all the build up to that end.

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u/sepsie 18h ago

That never happened? The last communication from the Titan was sent a minute before the implosion was heard.