Showing posts with label Oceangate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oceangate. Show all posts

Friday, 23 June 2023

Oceangate Titan Imploded

I recently learned that the Oceangate Titan explorer submarine had perished during the first hours of its dive on father's Day the 18th of June. All this time we were worried about the air running out by yesterday but the truth was it had already violently imploded minutes after the dive and the 5 man crew would have been torn to pieces by the rushing deep water. 
For some reason, the hull of the submersible had failed and the high pressure water rushed in and ripped it apart. The crew were very brave to go there, the water pressure is so powerful when you're several killometers under the ocean. I doubt they will ever find the bodies, they probably floated half way to the surface and got eaten up by sea creatures, the force of the deep ocean would have instantly torn them to pieces. I would put their cause of death as the Titanic. They went down there to look at the Titanic that had sunk  on 14  April 1912. 111 years later it had claimed 5 more lives. 
Five brave explorers died in the deep ocean because of the sunken Titanic, the largest ship that existed in 1912. If the Titanic had not sunk, they would not have gone down to the sea floor to look at it and their submarine  wouldn't have imploded in the deep ocean. Their death was caused by the sinking of the Titanic (And a cavalier attitude under water safety). 

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Trapped in the Deep

Earlier today it was the longest day of the year because the Earth's rotation axis is tilted at 23.5° and is always pointing towards the star called Polaris, this means the north side of the Earth is leaning towards the sun for 6 months and away from the sun the rest of the year. It was during this long day that I learned that an exploration submarine called Oceangate Titan was trapped in the deep ocean. 
There are five people on board and at the time of writing this post, they had about 1 day of oxygen left to keep them alive. A representative of the United States Coast guards was explaining the difficulties of rescuing the crew. 
He explained how the ocean is vast and their equipment is limited. The crew were alive but they can't be removed from the submarine in the deep ocean because they would be crushed by the water pressure and it may be too difficult to raise the submarine before they run out of oxygen. 

I hope they can rescue them before their air runs out. 

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