“The pressure inward on the sub would have been enormous,” he said. “Just imagine what several hundred atmospheres (of pressure) will do.” If you remove all the oil or water from a sealed metal can, it will collapse under the pressure of just one atmosphere of pressure at sea level, Wille said. Wille compared the pressure on the Titan to a classic physics demonstration. Experts say the pressure at that depth is between 370-380 bars. The remains of the Titanic are 12,500 feet deep. The diver with the deepest dive ever recorded reached 1,090 feet. Watch Video: Search for five in missing Titanic submersible comes to an end Because water is so much more dense than air, “pressure builds up much faster than it would when we’re going up or down in the atmosphere.” “People always underestimate that impact,” Wille said. Wille said the rule of thumb is one additional "atmosphere" of pressure for every 30 feet of water. It’s a familiar concept to divers, who feel the pressure on their bodies as they descend and must regulate the air they're breathing accordingly. Nearly 380 times greater than at the surface, Wille said. How intense is the pressure at the depth of the Titanic? Killed in the incident were Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and British explorer Hamish Harding.
They say it will be crucial to the families and future ocean exploration to learn as much as possible about what caused the implosion that claimed five lives. While the experts grieve the loss of the Titan and its passengers, they describe extreme and unforgiving conditions at the depth where two wrecks now lie some 2.5 miles below the ocean’s surface. The Coast Guard also confirmed to USA TODAY Thursday that a Navy analysis of acoustic data detected "an anomaly consistent with implosion or explosion" in the vicinity around the time the Titan lost contact. That likely explains what appears to have been the implosion of the vessel, said Wille and others. "The pressure inward on the sub would have been enormous," said Luc Wille, a professor and chair of physics at Florida Atlantic University.
Stockton Rush, owner and founder of OceanGate Expeditions, was piloting the Titan with a group of four passengers when the submersible lost contact Sunday with its support ship about an hour and forty-five minutes after starting its dive. But even at higher depths than where it was found, any defect in the hull would have allowed the Titan to be crushed in milliseconds, experts in physics and submarines told USA TODAY Thursday. It will be difficult to know at what depth the Titan sub became overwhelmed. Parts of the sub were found about 1,600 feet from the Titanic, nearly 12,500 feet below the surface in icy, dark waters. The final moments of the Titan would have been swift – and unleashed amid a force difficult to comprehend.Ī North Atlantic rescue mission undertaken by at least four countries found that the submersible was destroyed by a likely implosion, scattering its debris on the ocean floor near the doomed luxury liner Titanic. Watch Video: What is a catastrophic implosion? What we know about Titan submersible
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