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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are surprised, like I was, at how large the pieces of debris are, you're in good company.  This shipwreck guru PhD was also surprised.  But it makes sense that once the Titan split apart, the forces from the water pressure would have been equal on either side of the piece, cancelling each other out.  He also thinks the victims probably had a few minutes' warning where they knew something was wrong.
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The first failure was the carbon composite hull or the seam of the hull to the end caps, so after the first failure, the other pieces must not have experienced the same directional forces, as you say. Another deep sea expert said he heard loud cracks on a trip in the prior iteration of the titan sub, presumably the sounds of delamination, so the occupants could have heard the same.

I wonder if the instrumentation will show if the sub was ascending or descending when the implosion happened? If it was ascending, that points strongly to the crew knowing there was a problem, because at 1h45 min, they wouldn’t have been at titanic depth yet. [/quote]

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