But what conditions on the ocean floor could’ve caused such a catastrophic end?Īn undated image showing OceanGate’s Titan submersible vehicle. Officials have said it’s too early to tell when the implosion occurred and how. The clip is circulating online due to its eerie relevance to the tragic end to the search for the Titan submersible, which went missing on Sunday AEST with five passengers aboard as they travelled to the depths of the North Atlantic.Īfter an undersea robot discovered debris from the submersible about 487 metres from the Titanic’s bow, at the wreck’s depth of 3.8 kilometres, the US coast guard concluded the vessel suffered a “catastrophic implosion”, killing the five men and ending any hopes of a rescue. That’s a quote uttered by fictional undersea treasure hunter Brock Lovett in James Cameron’s Titanic as he narrates a submersible exploring the sides of the 1912 wreck. These windows are nine inches thick, and if they go, it’s sayonara in two micro-seconds.” The pressure outside is three-and-a-half tons per square inch. Three-thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one metres.
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