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/ThePowerOfStories 23h ago

Even worse, if you read more about it, they built an acoustic system to try to predict when it would fail, and the guy in charge then fired the people responsible because the system kept coming back with the answer “Real Soon Now”.

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u/selfresqprincess 22h ago

He also had the thing stored in Newfoundland where it was exposed to freezing temperatures. I’m surprised that thing had as many dives as it did.

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u/reddog323 13h ago

Yep. On top of things, they made that descent that day way too fast. Even properly constructed research subs tend to dive to sites that deep more gradually.

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u/IheartPickleSoda 20h ago

And even worse(r), literally none of the scaled down model pressure tests worked.

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u/Old_Collection1475 18h ago

And even with the acoustic system partially damaged Rush chose to turn it off entirely. Those hearings were insane.

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 22h ago

Sounds more like murder suicide. He must have known on some level but went ahead anyway.

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u/Crossfire124 21h ago

Nah guys like that are high off their own farts and will just come up with a new explanation for strange noises. He had a failure on the controller before and he still kept using the damn thing

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 21h ago

Guess it's then a result of not holding people accountable for their actions. So more like a systemic failure that allows this utter stupidity to happen.

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u/Hiraeth1968 10h ago

He couldn’t admit he was wrong about anything. Couldn’t hear the word “No.”

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 9h ago

Narcissist.

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u/Klutzy_Tomatillo4253 4h ago

It's crazy because the acoustic monitoring system they designed seems to have been legitimately brilliant and incredibly simple / efficient. It worked, too! They just chose to ignore the warnings.