TikTok movies are depicting the ‘catastrophic collapse’ of the missing Titanic submarine. Last month, tragic word spread that all five individuals aboard the ship had perished.
It was prompted by the discovery of debris “consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”
Titan, the submarine, was taking five passengers to a depth of 3,800 metres (about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland) to observe the actual site of the Titanic’s catastrophe. It is estimated that each participant paid £195,000.
the first photos of the mangled titanic sub have finally been released after being taken to shore pic.twitter.com/n8JkCbfR4K
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) June 28, 2023
After losing touch with the mothership MV Polar Prince about an hour and 45 minutes into a two-hour fall, it disappeared on the morning of June 18.
Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, whose firm owns the sub and runs the tours, was on board.
The British billionaire Hamish Harding was there, as was the Pakistani millionaire Shahzada Dawood, who now resides in the United Kingdom, and his son Suleman, who is 19 years old.
One of the world’s foremost authorities on the Titanic, the French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet made up the fifth member of the expedition.
After losing communication with the submerged yacht, officials stepped up their search efforts significantly out of concern that the crew could soon run out of air.
One encouraging development is that a plane has heard “underwater noises in the search area.” Therefore, remote-operated vehicle (ROV) activities had to be moved in order to investigate the sounds’ source.
Despite the lack of success, the Coast Guard is still using ROVs to search the area. A second aircraft, equipped to detect objects underwater, reportedly heard “banging sounds.”
After the tragic discovery of the wreckage, the Coast Guard stated that the noises were most likely simply “background ocean noise.”
Sky News quoted Rear Admiral John Mauger as saying, “We’ve taken that information and shared it with top leading experts from the US Navy and the Canadian Navy.`
And they’re working on the analysis of that information, and they’re continuing to work on the analysis of that information.”
Initial assessments suggest that the majority of the noises produced were due to ambient ocean noise, but the search for more clues continues.
Beginning with “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 message continued.
These individuals were genuine explorers, united by their love of discovery and the seas they strove to preserve.
All of our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these five lost individuals. We mourn the loss of the light and happiness they gave to the world
After hearing the tragic news that the submarine probably imploded, many people turned to TikTok to see what this would have looked like.
Video of a vessel being squashed and torn to shreds was posted on Twitter by user @sincerelybootz. When it comes to any life on board, “it’s very instantaneous as far as death,” the narrator explains.
Another video posted by @starfieldstudio shows the OceanGate Titan imploding and crashing to the ocean bottom like a tin can being walked on, followed by an explosion of the corroded metal.
According to the video’s subtitles, “the hull would immediately heat the air in the sub to around the surface of the sun,” as a wall of metal and saltwater shattered the boat in 30 milliseconds.