Videos claiming to show what an Titanic Sub implosion looks like have gone viral.
The five crew members of the Titanic submersible, who have been missing since Sunday, reportedly perished in an instant after experiencing a “catastrophic implosion,” according to the US Coast Guard.
Videos on social media purport to depict what an implosion looks like, despite the fact that some rescuers are still searching for wreckage to recreate the vessel’s final moments.
One of the videos demonstrates how unexpectedly quickly implosion occurs by showing an old YouTube video of a railway tanker collapsing.
Have a look at videos claiming to show what an Titanic Sub implosion looks like:
The majority of these videos were uploaded to TikTok and went viral.
One of them, according to the New York Post, depicts what appears to be a military sub abruptly flattening out, curling into a taco-shaped piece of metal, and tearing apart, leaving nothing but air bubbles and shrapnel in its wake.
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Haunting spectacle of an implosion. Still Best Case Scenario
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Another similar video shows OceanGate’s Titan sub-diving towards the seafloor when it begins to crumble as a stomped tin can, the Post report said.
The caption of the video says, “The instant collapse of the pressure, the hull would immediately heat the air in the sub to around the surface of the sun’s temperature, as a wall of metal and seawater smashed one end of the boat to the other, all in around 30 milliseconds.”
After making the announcement about the missing submersible’s likely fate, Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston that analysis showed debris found on the seafloor, 1,600 feet (500 metres) from the bow of the Titanic, was consistent with the implosion of the vessel’s pressure chamber.
Mauger said the Coast Guard could not be sure when or why the vessel imploded.
“We’ll collect as much information as we can,” he added.
On board were British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of the sub’s operator OceanGate Expeditions.
