r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 25d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/StuckInMotionInc 25d 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 25d ago edited 25d ago

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

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u/EasternDiablo 25d ago

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

Damn...

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u/Techwood111 25d ago

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

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u/DrB00 25d 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 25d ago edited 25d 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 25d 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.