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/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/Hiraeth1968 1d ago

You’re welcome.

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u/bellatrix99 1d ago

I’ve seen both , I prefer the one that wasn’t Netflix (sorry o can’t remember the name). The Netflix one wasn’t as in depth, it was more about the people if i remember.

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u/dcbluestar 1d ago

I gotta laugh at a documentary about a submarine implosion not being “in depth” though 😆

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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