Crushed in 0.02 Seconds — Titan’s Terrifying Implosion Explained
In 2021, billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding made a record-setting trip to the deepest part of the Mariana trench — the Challenger Deep.
The 4 hour, 11 kilometre (36,000 feet) drop took him nearly three times deeper than the site of the Titanic.
More people have orbited or landed on the moon than go that deep!
At the time, Harding understood the risks and ominously remarked:
“If something goes wrong, you are not coming back.”
Prophetically, on 18 June 2023, something did go wrong.
The OceanGate Titan submersible that carried him and four others, including OceanGate’s own maverick CEO Stockton Rush, suffered a catastrophic implosion on a sightseeing tour to the Titanic.
They were all very dead, very fast and in a very unpleasant manner. (Just like the Byford Dolphin accident in 1983.)
Deep sea pressure
Thanks to that annoying force called gravity, all of us are exposed to atmospheric…
