One year after the Titan accident, we decided to return to talk about the OceanGate bathyscaphe which probably imploded in the Atlantic Ocean with 5 people on board while diving towards the Titanic wreck. The remains of the submarine, which suddenly disappeared on 18 June 2023, were found after four days of exhausting searches at 3800 meters deep: the vessel was completely destroyed and the five people on board were dead. Investigations are still ongoing, but the most likely cause of the accident appears to have been a violent implosion that instantly killed all passengers. But what really happened? How was the bathyscaphe made? And why would it implode? In this video we will analyze the dynamics of the Titan accident with an unpublished 3D reconstruction and we will illustrate the main hypothesis on the cause of the accident, i.e. the implosion.
00:00 The 3D reconstruction of the Titan accident
01.21 The journey to the wreck of the Titanic
02.17 What it was like and how many people it hosted
03:10 The internal structure of the bathyscaphe
04:29 The difference with other bathyscaphes
05:09 The dive on June 18, 2023
06:06 The role of pressure
06:57 The Titan implosion hypothesis
08:51 The remains of the Titan
09:29 The possible causes of the implosion
11:35 The Titan did not have third-party certification
11.54 A reflection on the Titan accident
CREDITS : OceanGate
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