Titanic Five knew their fate for a MINUTE before vessel 'popped like balloon', claims expert: Victims would have felt 'horror, fear and agony as the five men piled on top of each other during 3,000ft nosedive'
A submarine expert said the Titan fell 'like an arrow' due to a power failure
For a minute its passengers would have descended in total darkness, he says
That rapid change of pressure would have caused the catastrophic implosion
By Neirin Gray Desai For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:48 EDT, 11 July 2023 | Updated: 11:29 EDT, 11 July 2023
The passengers that died on the Titan submersible would have been aware of the impending catastrophe for a minute before the implosion, an expert has said.
Spanish submarine expert José Luis Martín suggested the submersible lost stability due to an electrical failure that left it without propulsion, causing it to fall toward the seabed 'like an arrow vertically' with its porthole facing down.
He estimated that the sub began freefalling at a depth of around 5,600 feet and fell 'as if it were a stone and without any control' for about 3,000 feet until at around 8,600 feet it 'popped like a balloon' due to the rapidly changing pressure.
Martin suggested the passengers would have been piled on top of each other in terrifying total darkness throughout the fall, which would have lasted between 48 and 71 seconds.
The Titan submersible lost communications with its support vessel on Sunday, June 18, during a descent to the wreck of the Titanic 12,500 feet beneath the surface.
Days later, its debris was recovered. It was said to have suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'.
Tourists Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, French Navy pilot Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush all died on the submersible.
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