A video posted on Youtube detailed how and why OceanGate’s submersible Titan imploded and killed 5 passengers on board during an expedition to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in June.
The animation from the channel AiTelly, which used a software called Blender, described the Titan material as an “experimental design” and pointed out how it was different from conventional technology that uses steel, titanium and aluminum for very deep submersion.
It took the YouTube channel 12 hours to input data about OceanGate into the 3D modeling software to create a dynamic animation.
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That is, according to experts, the problem with the submersible was its construction in carbon fiber, a material that can “crack and break suddenly”.
The animation also recreates what the submersible’s interior would look like, noting that “this is probably one of the most basic deep-diving submarines you’ll ever see.”
The video addresses the differences between implosion and explosion, as also explained by the director of the Institute of Oceanography at USP, Paulo Sumida, to CNN .
After failure, the pressure applied to the submersible’s hull would make an explosion unfeasible, Sumida explained. In this way, the collapse in the structure would be an implosion, that is, something internal, rather than external.
“It implodes because the hull is full of air. Air is very compressible, unlike water, which is very little. So all the water pressure around the hull – imagine a 4 km column of water over this hull – exerting pressure on all sides”, he evaluated.
At that depth, the pressure exerted on the bodies is about 400 times greater than at the surface.
“When there was a failure, the tendency was for it to press the air. So it couldn’t explode, because the pressure wouldn’t let it. Then it imploded. The walls collapsed and part of them were taken in three pieces, which shows the degree of violence of this pressure”.
On June 18, the submersible was launched into the Atlantic Ocean, above the site where the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
At 9:45 am, OceanGate CEO and pilot Stockton Rush lost contact with the surface during a descent of more than 3800 meters into the depths of the ocean.
Days later, Titan’s wreckage was recovered from the sea, confirming the possibility of a catastrophic implosion caused by vessel failure.
Tourists Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and their son Suleman Dawood, 19, French Navy pilot Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet and CEO Stockton Rush, were killed in the crash.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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