Looks like it is official….the sub was destroyed and occupants are dead.
Debris has been found near the Titanic that leads officials to believe the sub imploded.
Those hoping for the safe return of the five people lost in a submersible in the North Atlantic rooted for a miracle on Thursday. It did not come. First, the US Coast Guard announced the discovery of a debris field on the ocean floor near the Titanic. Then OceanGate, the operator of the sub, released a statement giving up hope of a rescue for the Titan crew, reports CNN.
- “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the statement reads, per the Guardian. It hailed the five as “true explorers.”
After its initial no-details statement about the debris field, a Coast Guard spokesman said “five different major pieces of debris” that belonged to the submersible were discovered. That includes the nose cone, which was found about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, reports the Washington Post. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger at a news conference, per the New York Times. “On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families.”
He added that a definitive explanation of what happened to the Titan will take time. Thursday morning had marked a critical 96-hour threshold since the vessel disappeared—the point at which breathable air would likely have run out.
I think there is something weird here.
The parts were found about 1600 feet from the bow of the Titanic…..why was it found just hours after the air would have run out.
I mean they were searching around the shipwreck for days and it is ‘discovered’ just hours after the air became toxic (that is if there was any air at all).
Call me suspicious but once the sub was found the story value would go down…..the timing leads me to be suspicious.
All my readers that said it was an implosion from the start of this drama may sleep well tonight for they were right on this issue.
A tragic end to the ‘adventure of a lifetime’.
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“lego ergo scribo”
I will not believe that anybody is dead until someone finds bodies.
I doubt there is much left to find, John. The ‘implosion’ will have been catastrophic.
The way I understand it is that no human remains will be recoverable because the implosion subjected allof them to a simultaneously horrible disfigurement as follows … Imagine a sledge hammer being slammed down on top of a grape …that is the effect the sea pressures would have on the bodies of the victims and it all would have happened in a millisecond at best …secondly, once the sea pressure and the implosion would have obliterated the bodies, the corrosive sea water at that depth would accelerate a process of tissue decomosition — and then after that, the currents would have swept the human tissue in many directions and far far away from the site where the debris field was found. Horrible. Absolutely horrible!
I suppose the only thing to say is, ‘at least it was quick’.
not to mention atrociously expensive
May be hard for they have been fish food for days. chuq
The BBC reported las night that it imploded on the day of descent. If that’s true all the rest since has been ‘manufactured news’.
Best wishes, Pete.
I am beginning to see that as well chuq
Golly, chuq.. you found a reason for a conspiracy in all this? 🙂 John too??
Here’s my “conspiracy”…. the sub never actually went down with anyone inside it. It was a setup from the beginning. The “tourists” never boarded the sub, but have been paid off to keep quiet or they all get a piece of the action. The sub was turned into broken parts on land, then the parts brought out to the Titanic site and dumped overboard. They set off an explosion to satisfy the Navy’s sonar detection by creating an event timeline.
So what’s the piece of the action in my conspiracy to warrant all this? The usual suspects.. insurance money… someone’s coverup to avoid legal responsibility or exposure… hell, maybe it’s a grand scheme for a politician’s rise to power…. if I were making this into a movie I would say all this leads back to those Trump Russia pee tapes… or the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.
All I know that this would certainly have been a boring tragedy if it happened simply at face value. Hmmm.. maybe this is all a publicity stunt to introduce a Cameron sequel to “Titanic”.
A good conspiracy….mine is they knew it imploded on the first day and the media played this for the coverage value….chuq
Oh wait! This is all about Hillary’s 30,000 emails!
LOL Or Hunter’s laptop chuq
Hahaha!
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Regarding decomposition of a body at that depth… it’s nothing like the typical decomposition that can take place at shallower depths. For one thing the water temp at that level, near freezing, slows down decomp considerably. The extreme darkness limits the development of bacteria surviving from the sunlight… very low oxygen.. hence less to consume flesh. The intense pressures at that depth compress organic tissue making natural decomp, again, much slower. But here’s an interesting text regarding sea creatures at that level gobbling up body parts….
“Detritus food chain: In the deep ocean, a detritus food chain sustains a complex ecosystem. The remains of organisms that sink to the ocean floor provide a source of food for specialized deep-sea scavengers and organisms adapted to low-nutrient environments. These scavengers slowly consume organic material, including corpses, but the process is typically slow.”
Putting all that together seems to make some sense regarding that Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic off of South America a few years ago. That was about a mile down and when they brought that to the surface after nearly a year after the crash, the bodies were remarkably intact. BUT… those bodies did not suffer from the trauma of an implosion as their descent in the undersea environment was gradual given the plane was broken up and allowed seawater inside.
Like I said before….fish food. chuq