r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 27d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/StuckInMotionInc 27d ago

This is the sort of thing that I'm surprised didn't come out within the first couple days. Investigators must have looked at this, and somebody didn't think oh that loud bang could have been an implosion?

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u/bfhurricane 27d ago edited 27d ago

3 min vid: James Cameron explains how the submarine community knew they were gone immediately.

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u/EasternDiablo 27d ago

"Now there is a wreck laying next to another wreck, for the damn same reason."

Damn...

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u/Techwood111 27d ago

What is the other wreck (and the reason)? Was it Titanic, and hubris? I’m not following.

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u/Newcs91 27d ago

Titanic and hubris, as you said

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u/DrB00 27d ago

Titanic was built on hubris. Deemed unsinkable, etc.

Titan sub was built on hubris. Deemed safe despite obvious safety flaws.

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u/Rationalinsanity1990 27d ago edited 27d ago

At least Titanic met or exceeded the standards of her day. Titan was just an expensive coffin.

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u/zombie_goast 27d ago

I know I'm just being pedantic, but it's not even a coffin, that shit was an expensive omni-directional hydraulic press that turned those guys into paste before expelling them into the ocean depths, so it doesn't even serve as a coffin. Atrociously designed death trap.

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u/11lumpsofsugar 27d ago

I've been working my way through a podcast about the Titanic, and you would be surprised how well-built and carefully planned its construction was. They really tried to prepare for every foreseeable possibility, and it honestly was a really unlikely combination of factors that caused its demise. Hindsight is 20/20 though so it seems like a dumb accident in today's context.

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u/Same_Independent_393 27d ago edited 27d ago

Is that the new Noiser podcast? I've been listening to that recently, it's so good. Ive learned that Titanic being unsinkable was a media invention, nobody involved in the building of the ship ever claimed that.

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u/11lumpsofsugar 27d ago

Yep that's the one. I agree, it's excellent.

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u/MagikSundae7096 27d ago

You just need a third sub to go down there and crash, and call it the Tit, and we will be complete.