The Titan Sub's Final Messages

This is a leak and unconfirmed so take it with a grain of salt

0:00 Intro
0:09 Start of messages

[fakebeastbrother.]

I love how it just goes straight into the point of the video apart of explaining the story because mostly everyone should know it by now.

[carlycrays]

The thing that gets me is that the CEO totally believed this was safe

[galaxystarrs]

At least it was quick and painless. The passengers didn't even know what was wrong with the Titan, but the CEO did, and didn't follow rules and fired someone for calling the problems out. This is a sad story.

[varun]

Let's establish this before people forget and think this was just the price payed for innovation.
1. He was told multiple times that carbon fiber doesn't do well under compression.
2. Despite that, he still bought unserviceable and expired carbon fiber filament from the aerospace industry.
3. He then didn't properly do the resin injection likely resulting in voids in the casting.
4. He didn't mechanically interface the titanium with the carbon fiber. He literally just glued it in place.
5. He ignored all lisencing and certifications because he could not meet them.
6. Used a glass window only rated for 1, 300 meters while travelling down over 3000.


This is what happens when you have more money than good sense.

Edit: please check legaleagle's video on the topic. It was *much* worse than I thought.

[WT_Brix]

We need to stop naming aquatic vessels "Titan“

[TopothetopYT]

This is why we need to prioritize saftey on any kind of vessels travelling in high pressure areas.

[SourceSFM]

Edit: Everyone is correcting me in the comments saying that everyone knew, and they heard the submarine break apart. Thank you for the info, but that's not what I'm getting at. In the video, there's a part where they send their last message, the vessel on top responds but gets no answer. That part, that is spine-chilling.

The fact that the sub imploded in 1 millisecond without anyone knowing is just spine chilling. They're down in the depths of the ocean, and at anytime the titan can just shrink in an instant without anyone at the vessel knowing...

[Grimm_]

it’s very sad how the passengers passed

because of the crackling in the rear and the drop of the landing gear thats how we found those pieces first before we found the imploded submarine

[chonkerturtle]

With how sad this is it shows how stupid of an idea it was in the first place. Full sympathy to those involved except the CEO and company, they should've had to have the submarine regulated if its civilian made for private uses. Someone should be held responsible for not looking into the safety of this

[LittleLulubee]

So if these messages are real, they knew for at least 18 minutes that something was terribly wrong 😱😱 Poor kid, who had already been terrified to go. He probably had a premonition. Imagine the sense of utter dread and panic, knowing you’re totally doomed 💔

[dyrokudobane]

2:03 the last message made by the submarine at 09:46:37. They were at 3, 457 meters according to the message They didn't respond to the next message so they probably died within 2 minutes - but instantaneously. RIP, Titan sub and its occupants.

[thomasmendolo]

What's so frustrating is that so many people sounded the alarms about how terrible the design was and yet the CEO and other higher ups ignored them.

[videowilliams]

James Cameron said he suspected the occupants would've heard the de-lamination of their carbon fibre hull before it imploded. A "crackling sound", I guess, would be how that sounded.

[phil]

The people on the sub all knew they were in huge trouble. They could all hear the crackling and crunching of the carbon fiber failing, all around them. They tried repeatedly to drop the frame from the sub before it dropped off and still the sub did not want to start surfacing. Somewhere on that sub, parts never meant to retain seawater were retaining sea water and therefore adding weight that was not allowing the sub to surface. It could have been battery cases swelling as sea water forced its way inside and blew them up like a balloon of weight. It could have been hose exteriors doing the same thing. Even worse, there could have been an exterior carbon fiber delamination that sea water was prying apart and creating a void that sea water was rushing inside to add weight to the sub and hold it down. Every person on that sub knew they were about to die.
And they knew from before 9:28:16 to 9:46:37.
Eighteen minutes is a long time to see death coming for you and to know you are in the very worst place you could ever be to meet it. You have no escape.
This is the legacy of Stockton Rush and his statement, "Safety is relative."
Safety is not relative anymore.

[hudsonheck]

I always find the scariest stuff at 10 at night. I feel so bad for the loss of the families. Makes my skin crawl thinking of being down in the ocean and knowing you might not make it out.

[neptun]

I still don’t get how anyone would dive to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in this thing. If a group of my fellow engineering students had been given a task to construct a submersible that can bring about 4 people to the bottom of the local lake, on a 500€ budget and about 4 weeks time to do it, the solution we would come up with would look something like the Titan.

[jacetheace]

If these messages are real, I'm glad we're finding out more information on what caused this terrible, terrible incident.
Rest in peace the victims and condolences to the families.
Must've been absolutely terrifying hearing the crackling sounds. -edit

[dhruvraghav]

What a sad way to go


Atleast the poor souls didn't feel a thing

[Djkar]

It imploded in like 1 fraction of a second and it takes like 10 times that long to process pain, sight, and hearing.

[gregt]

I'm sure everyone on board was terrified in their last moments hearing the obvious sounds of the carbon fiber hull cracking knowing they were all doomed.