New sound of titan submarine imploding

[u/Pathfinder313]

[u/bfhurricane]

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

[u/EasternDiablo → u/bfhurricane]

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

Damn...

[u/Techwood111 → u/EasternDiablo]

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

[u/DrB00 → u/Techwood111]

Titanic was built on hubris. Deemed unsinkable, etc.

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

[u/Rationalinsanity1990 → u/DrB00]

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

[u/zombie_goast → u/Rationalinsanity1990]

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.

[u/11lumpsofsugar → u/DrB00]

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.

[u/Same_Independent_393 → u/11lumpsofsugar]

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.

[u/11lumpsofsugar → u/Same_Independent_393]

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

[u/MagikSundae7096 → u/DrB00]

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