New news: “Researchers from the University of Houston have now published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that suggests “micro-buckling” may be one of the potential causes of the disaster.”

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/new-theory-on-what-caused-infamous-titan-sub-implosion-on-way-to-titanic-wreck/news-story/15f0a6b7a00e296bd02134a04509831f

I wonder when the CG report will be released.

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Watching Raise the Titanic on Prime. Released in 1980, it had a team of submersibles searching for the Titanic. Eerily, one of them developed a leak and imploded.

Does this investigation seem to be taking a long time? I mean, they’re not going to get any more debris or remains, there can’t have been that much telemetry from the mission, there aren’t that many people associated with Oceangate to interview, maybe they are going through data from prior Titan dives to the Titanic but there were only three. It is not a complicated vessel, structurally or systems. If they can’t answer all the questions, then so be it.

I wonder if the delay is associated with the ‘conclusions and recommendations’ section. Specifically, how do we prevent this from happening again? There are no laws that prohibit what was done and the families of those killed have enough means to sue the governing bodies that didn’t stop Ocean Gate…

I suspect it’s more about shedding liability than ‘what happened’ at this point.

Powers that be (CG, etc) have no liability here, I don’t think it’s that.

Update:

The U.S. Coast Guard presented the animation on Monday on the first day of what is expected to be a two-week hearing on the causes of the implosion.”

Nearly 15 months after U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, father-son pair Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood, and French mariner Paul-Henry Nargeolet, died when the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded on its way down the see the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard provided insight into those final moments, during the beginning of a multi-day hearing on the investigation.



https://www.foxnews.com/us/titan-submersible-crew-said-all-good-here-final-messages-moments-before-vessel-imploded-us-coast-guard

I think we can already guess: everyone with any sense at Oceangate warned that the Titan was underdesigned and unsafe, and got fired for it, so in the end Rush was leading a bunch of kids and syncophants, to his death and he took others with him. I also think we’ll find out they died instantly, no idea anything was wrong, thus mercifully.

What I want to know is: when a submersible instantly implodes at that depth, what happens to the human bodies? Do they become a cloud of pink slime, are there recognizable bits left, what was recovered? Sorry to be morbid and indecent, but honestly that’s all I want to know.

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Under that intense pressure I suspect the only potentially recognizable body part may be the enamel (crowns) of teeth.

Bones are porous and may get crushed but enamel is the hardest naturally occurring substance in the body. That may survive.

If any of the older passengers had titanium hip replacements obviously that would remain, as would silver fillings and gold/porcelain crowns.

It is a dark interest but fascinating none the less.

Hi all
Lots of USCG information about the hearings and a document library at this link:
https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/
Cheers

After watching the video, I just wondered, where's the rest of it?

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the engineering beat down yesterday was amazing. gotta love a good engineering beat down.

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I don’t think they would have evaporated, but there would be some kind of tissue left. Now where that might be, is the question. If there’s any kind of structure crushed that was left, maybe there’s something inside…

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