“What they would do now is go back to that site and, like cookie crumbs, try to find a trail as to where that would lead,” said Tom Maddox, CEO of Underwater Forensic Investigators, who took part in a Titanic expedition in 2005. So far, they have located the Titan’s nose cone and one end of its pressure hulls in a large debris field, and the other end of the pressure hull in a second, smaller debris field. It will take time to put together a specific timeline of events, the US Coast Guard said Thursday, calling the underwater environment “incredibly complex.” The US Coast Guard said Thursday it will continue the search in an effort to recover what it can, but warned it was “an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor.”īesides searching for the passengers, authorities will also continue to search the sea floor in hopes of discovering more information about what led to the implosion. “Ultimately, among the many ways in which we can pass, that’s painless.”Įxperts say it is unlikely any bodies will be recovered. “The entire thing would have collapsed before the individuals inside would even realize that there was a problem,” she told CNN. The submersible was about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the roughly 2 hour descent when it lost contact.Īt the depth the Titanic rests, there is around 5,600 pounds per square inch of pressure – several hundred times the pressure we experience on the surface, according to Rick Murcar, the international training director at the National Association of Cave Divers.Ī catastrophic implosion is “incredibly quick,” taking place within just a fraction of a millisecond, said Aileen Maria Marty, a former Naval officer and professor at Florida International University. It’s unclear where or how deep the Titan was when the implosion occurred, but the Titanic wreck sits nearly 13,000 feet (almost 4,000 meters) below sea level. The US Navy detected a sound that would match an implosion on Sunday, the day it went missing, and search teams have since found fragments of the Titan submersible, confirming those on board have perished.īut many questions still remain as authorities continue searching for debris, including when the implosion happened and what exactly went wrong with the sub.Īn underwater implosion refers to the sudden inward collapse of the vessel, which would have been under immense pressure at the depths it was diving toward. Their deaths were confirmed Thursday, concluding a week-long search for survivors that was closely watched around the world. What was supposed to be a 10-hour journey to the Titanic shipwreck ended in tragedy, with all five passengers on the missing submersible killed in a catastrophic implosion.
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