Warning: this article contains content that some readers may find distressing
A gruesome simulation that shows what actually happens to a person’s body when a submarine implodes has been described as ‘comforting’.
When the tragedy of the Titan submersible unfolded in June last year, many feared that the five passengers had suffered during their last moments on board.
However, a simulation describes how, when the sub failed and imploded as a result, it happened so fast that no one even knew it was happening.
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All of the people in the vessel lost their lives, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
Now, a video illustrates just what happened to them as they journeyed down to the Titanic wreckage.
Uploaded to YouTube by Josh Cottle, he explains that in the depths of which the Titan was believed to be, which was around 11,500 ft, you have ‘about six thousand pounds of pressure per square inch’ surrounding you.
And when it imploded, the submersible ‘basically became a tube of toothpaste in a hydraulic press’.
Describing an implosion, Cottle said: “They happen very quickly, in the case of Titan you're literally talking less than a millisecond maybe even a nanosecond that's why you keep hearing people say they never knew it happened.”
So, what actually happens when a sub implodes?
According to the YouTuber, the submersible ‘has a giant air bubble inside of it and when it fails, the pressure is going to compress that air’.
When that occurs, it ‘heats up to about the temperature of the sun which is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit’.
Anything inside the vessel is instantly ‘reduced to a gel’ and Cottles explains that the ‘gel-like substance would be ejected out of all of the seams’.
Taking to the YouTube comment section to react to the video, many viewers have similar thoughts.
One user wrote: “As dark and gruesome as the whole thing is, it's actually comforting to know the passengers didn't suffer and were gone before they even knew what was happening.”
Another said: “It's actually comforting to know they were gone before they could feel the pain. I could never imagine it..”
And a third added: “I take comfort in the fact that they did not suffer, they did not know what even happened. My heart truly breaks for the 19 year old, who had his life taken so young, they now rest with the souls of the Titanic.”