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/gruntillidan 1d ago

There is an audio of what happened?

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u/ChiefRedChild 1d ago

Sorta kinda yeah. There’s one video where Rush is recoding a test dive or some shit and you can hear constant creaking throughout the ‘sub’ and feel his uneasiness. However there’s no actual ‘black box’ device in the sense of hearing what all went down that day in the cabin. Instead it’s a clip of his wife and support team above water staring at the monitor trying to contact them when all of a sudden you hear a faint “bloop” or “bang” come from the subs coms. One of the guys looks over at his wife and you can tell he knows what happened.

Edit: I don’t think they were trying to contacting them, just talking to each other where they should be at sea level wise.

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u/HealthyMaximum 21h ago

Oh, good call on that video.

For others who might be interested; it's just after 1:18 in the video I've linked below.

The 2 guys definitely knew what just happened. I think Wendy Rush hadn't quite processed it properly, or she was just in denial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8TCFGaOlc

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u/3767_doomscroller 11h ago

The two guys immediately knew. The one guy walked right out of the room, thinking: fuck.

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 1d ago

a faint “bloop” or “bang” come from the subs coms.

Did it come through coms? I thought they heard it through the hull, the navy certainly heard it.

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u/ChiefRedChild 1d ago

I think you are correct. The “bang” made it to the hull before the last message “dropped two weights” made it back to the audio from the Titan. Which is fucking insane if you ask me.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPORT 1d ago

I think it was more that the message decode took a long time, like 10-30 seconds. So the message arrived before the bang, but didn't finish decoding till after it.

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 1d ago

As usual, the real horror is in the details.

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u/tokyoevenings 9h ago

If they were dropping weights, it certainly means they knew they’re in serious danger. The 19 year-old boy must’ve been absolutely terrified. So while death was instantaneous, they were probably in intense fear for an extended period before that. They knew exactly what was going on.

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u/junon 1d ago

Yeah, when he was diving down below 3000m himself or whatever it was and he was talking to himself as the creaking started... he was super unsettled but as soon as he got on the radio, he went into full bullshit mode and didn't mention a thing about it. Very "oh we don't need to go all the way down to finish the test, it's super good, just gonna come back up now, like 500m before our intended depth, just because everything was actually so good!" vibes.

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u/theghostmachine 23h ago

The sound didn't come from comms. There were no audio comms. What they heard was the actual sound of the implosion as it reached the surface of the ocean

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u/HanseaticHamburglar 1d ago

and they still wasted all those resources looking for the sub. Insane.

They had the freakin US Navy deploy boats, at taxpayer expense i believe.

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u/ZipTheZipper 1d ago

The Navy knew exactly what happened, long before they deployed anything. But it was a good opportunity for them to practice some deep-sea recon/salvage.

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u/TheCatSleeeps 1d ago

I'm more furious towards the media coverage of it tbh. They made it look like theyre just chilling below the seafloor

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u/DimensionSuch8188 1d ago

You can't pick and choose what society does and when it helps. That's selfish.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 23h ago

You're absolutely right! Let's send your message via a horse and rider to inform the citizens of Gary, Indiana, 'cause they still don't have any fucking electricity.

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u/lexkixass 10h ago

Christ, wtf. My heart goes out to those people

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u/DimensionSuch8188 23h ago

I don't understand your reply.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 23h ago

The government can't seem to find the same funds to get 300000 people reconnected to the grid as they did to search for a bunch of billionaires whom they already knew had been atomized. So yeah, it seems someone can pick and choose when society helps.

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u/DimensionSuch8188 19h ago

Ahhh. Yeah no I mean we do not have to become selfish because others are.

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u/ItAintThickButItLong 19h ago

Why couldn’t they get mail like everybody else?

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 17h ago

Well sorting centres traditionally run on electricity, but of course nowadays they're under threat from Trump's ridiculous cuts!

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u/HanseaticHamburglar 11h ago

yeah so like if people get stranded in the alps for example and need mountain rescue they have to foot the bill (with some exceptions). This is because usually in search and rescue events the emergency was entirely avoidable - so risking professionals lives in effect because they couldnt properly plan.

So i would say, this should definitely be extended to other rich people hobbies that come with super high risks - no expectation of rescue, and if one is attempted, at their own expense.

Like solo circumnavigation, mountain climbing ... deep sea diving in a freakin carbon fibre submarine literally every expert in the field had previously condemned. Those should be undertaken at their own peril. Its common sense.

Now if the Navy really wanted the practice they should go back to monitoring the wreckage of their own nuclear submarines.

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u/DimensionSuch8188 8h ago

I'm against the person having to foot the bill, I don't support that. It just makes it people are less likely to call for help and more likely to die and now we have a body and research to deal with.

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u/ItAintThickButItLong 19h ago

More or less training for them and they knew it.

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u/Initial-Advice3914 1d ago

Yeah there’s a video of the wife of the CEO and some others monitoring.

They hear a boom. The wife looks at the technician “what was that” nervously smiling.

It was kinda sad.

Then I thought about how these rich assholes would spend money on this rather than help people and I don’t feel bad at all about it

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u/r0wo1 19h ago

I saw the whole event as a "fuck around and find out" sorta situation

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u/currently_pooping_rn 1d ago

She was thinking “that’s the sweet sound of life insurance”

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u/ItAintThickButItLong 1d ago

Yea from the people on the boat above water, you could hear it on their radio/lab top whatever it was they were using

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u/pasher71 1d ago

They also heard a "pop" a second before the last signal. In the video you can hear them say "what was that".

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u/Henry5321 1d ago

The microphone turning into plasma

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u/stierney49 1d ago

There was no audio link between the sub and the surface. It was all text. Like, one line of text like a 90s cell phone. The “pop” was at the surface.

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u/pasher71 1d ago

No shit. Is Reddit on crack today?

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u/mothandravenstudio 23h ago

Are you? You shouldn’t, that is bad for you.

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u/GregTheMad 1d ago

This is misleading, the people above the water heard that sound. For the people in the sub there was no warning. One moment every seems fine, the next eternal oblivion.

The was a warning "crack" sound, but it happened on the ascend of the previous dive. The sub should have been decommissioned after that, but the warning was ignored.

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u/HoshinoLina 18h ago

The loud warning crack was a delamination, that was also loud enough that it was also heard by those on the surface. But besides that, there were lots of crackling noises every dive, increasing after that delamination event. These were recorded by the acoustic sensors but there's testimony from people on the sub on past dives that they were also audible to them.

The people inside absolutely could hear the crackling noises, and it's reasonable to assume they got louder and more frequent before the implosion. There might have even been another major delamination or other stages causing a loud noise on board, seconds before the final implosion.

Most likely they knew what was coming, for at least a few seconds if not minutes.

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u/pasher71 1d ago

Reading comprehension is a thing, bro.

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u/AStolenGoose 1d ago

Link?

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u/pasher71 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8TCFGaOlc

There you go.

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u/GrapefruitPurple2495 1d ago

That clip is terrifying. Old bearded man definitely felt there was something very wrong. The wife gives him a nervous smile asking "what was that bang", she gets a text message from the sub just after that. So she thinks everything is ok but grandpa has that gut feeling and you can see it on his face.

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u/The_Killer_of_Joy 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4vHuJ65DlZI

Direct short of the clip.

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u/PosterPrintPerfect 1d ago

That's has a much better audio then the other clips.

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u/LouLePrince 1d ago

The guy in white just freezing then leaving immediately... yeah probably knew

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF 1d ago

Or possibly going to check it wasn't the tether failing or something. Who knows (except him)

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u/uhfish 1d ago

Probably going to check if anything was happening onboard that would have made a sound like that

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u/RandomPenquin1337 1d ago

She know exactly what it was, just doesnt want to admit it

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u/AStolenGoose 1d ago

This one is better. I don't have my good headphones though, but thank you.

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u/sniffingsailor 1d ago

I can't really hear it

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u/The_Killer_of_Joy 23h ago

10 seconds in, "about 500 meters", *thud*

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u/dirkdigglerdonedry 1d ago

I also need a link

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u/ddxs1 1d ago

Door for link

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u/darsynia 1d ago

It's not just random people, either, one of them was Stockton's wife!

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u/colxa 21h ago

lab top

Are you 90 years old? Lol

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u/ItAintThickButItLong 19h ago

No, my phone autocorrected it from laptop I think.

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u/gruntillidan 1d ago

Daamn, that must've been crushing to hear it!

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u/ksgt69 22h ago

I do know that there is a video of people up top listening to what happened. It is a woman, one of the guys wife, and two dudes, she asks what that thump was, the dudes give each other a knowing look and one leaves.