What Went Wrong on the Titan Submersible? Explained With Illustrations

The Titan submersible, and its mother ship the Polar Prince, left for the site of the RMS Titanic's wreck, from St.John's city in Canada's Newfoundland on Friday, 16 June, carrying five people.

Titan lost contact with the surface after one hour and 45 minutes. Four days later, the Coast Guard would discover debris from the Titan submersible, at the bottom of the ocean. All five on board had perished. What went wrong for the expedition? Watch the video for the story.

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[parwaz]

Even BBC couldn't explain so well as The Quint has done.
Thank you a lot The Quint!

[AdamJWM]

If you have ever been to the bottom of a pool and felt the pressure in your ears you can imagine what 10, 000 feet may be like. Human don’t belong in the water. Not depths like that. It is insane dangerous. But some of us don’t care about that and we need that danger to feel alive. The only problem I have is the lack of safety. Rest In Peace, guys.

[chefaero]

I remember my grandfather telling me that from the start he knew that titanic will sink, he told me that he informed everyone multiple times but no one listened until the security pulled him out of the cinema!

[natashacutiepie]

They were 15 mins from reaching the Titanic. I can imagine the amount of water pressure was around them by then. They could probably hear the fibers snapping in the sub as it's shell started to give way the lower they got. They were probably trying to resurface but it was too late.

[roahnosh]

1:54 "Titan designed to reach 4, 000 metre depth."

You should have added "allegedly" or "according to OceanGate" because the viewport of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1, 300 meters.

[anmolroy]

If your death is written in the depth of the ocean, you'll even rent a Submarine to reach there on time.

[careercriticalthinker]

The fact that Oceansgate privately had know that Sunday that the sub imploded immediately after comms and tracking were both lost simultaneously and shared that fact with the Coast Guard, ....yet, while deliberately misleading the public for four days is the real tragedy here. The families were hanging on to false hope for days until Thursday when Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute finally confirmed what was known all along on Sunday by traveling to Titan's last known position and then descending straight to the bottom where Titan's wreckage was found, ..exactly where they expected to find it. Authorities knew all along that the sub had imploded on Sunday, and dragged out the story of hope for four days. They only interviewed James Cameron and Robert Ballard till AFTER the fact because both these men already knew early Monday that the sub had imploded. Basically, Stockton Rush designed the sub with a 'tin can and duct tape' mentality which reinforces the sub's design as experimental. Basically, Rush expected this design to be sufficient to sustain a deep sea tourism business using crude and elementary methods on board such as using second-hand gaming technology as a means to control propulsion. Yes, the sub made successful dives to Titanic, .HOWEVER, the carbon fiber shell literally degraded with every trip significantly. This meant that the sub tragically was weakened with every dive. All successful deep sea submersible vehicles utilize a solid component spherical design that needs to meet certification every five years. Stockton 'Crush', if you'll pardon the pun, was using a pawn shop mentality to support a deep sea tourism business using a 'tin can and duct tape' design that received heavy criticism and safety concerns throughout the small deep sea exploration diving that is the reality of this event.

[wernerstrauss]

Just a "friendly question". I am no expert but I watched several videos and read various articles from and by experts that the Titan, being made from predominantly carbon fibre, was not meant to go so deep. Is it not misleading to state it was built to go down 4 000m? The Titan imploded because it could not take the amount of pressure. Clearly not built for those depths?

[ahmedmahz]

They paid lot of money for their own death

[siddharthamukherjee]

THE QUINT, this is by far the most informative analysis I have seen on this tragedy. This is a masterclass on how a video story should be done. 👍👍👍

[rubytwoshoes]

James Cameron declined a trip in titan. That's all I need to know. He helped design, build and pilot challenger deep at a building cost of approx $37 million. Hes been to titanic 33 times and dove the Mariana trench which is three times deeper than titanic.

[deepahallyal]

Very well explained, thank you . None of the videos from the western world had this level clarity . Well done 👍

[lukepoe]

The Bathyscaphe Trieste had a 5-inch thick steel hull and reached the Mariana Trench in 1960. It weighed 50 long tons. Most of the Trieste had thinner steel, but it wasn’t pressurized. That's already a superior design than the Titan submersible, and the Trieste was made over 70 years ago. When it comes to strength, aluminum alloys have ultimate tensile strengths ranging from 10, 000 psi to 75, 000 psi.

Titanium alloys have ultimate tensile strengths ranging from 25, 000 to 220, 000 psi. Steel has ultimate tensile strengths ranging from 35, 000 to 350, 000 psi. There's your winner. Delamination is when layers of carbon fiber begin to unbond due to stress. Steel returns back to its original shape. Damage to carbon fiber remains and accumulates.

The material is horrible for a sub. James Cameron designed his Deepsea Challenger sub out of syntactic foam and 2.5-inch steel beams. It was tested for its ability to withstand the required 114 megapascals (16, 500 pounds per square inch) of pressure in a pressure chamber at Pennsylvania State University.

[JoeLaFon]

They didn't habe 96hrs of oxygen. Stockton CLAIMED Titan had 96hrs of oxygen on board but others in the sub community know that figure was for 1 passenger anyway, not 5.

[sonthems]

Im sure the name "TITA.... " Is cursed.
Titanic was not the only ship with that name that sank. Before her, many with the name TITA sank. And now this TITAN.

[dhivya_animal_lover]

My heartfelt condolences to the passengers and their family. Pls dont take risk to do world record. Be happy with what you have.

[PitoVH]

This company should be accountable for their big mistakes lying about partnerships to persuade customers to feel save by doing this, knowing it was super dangerous they have no certifications, experimenting with real Humans subjects this company didn’t have no years of data to make sure this tech was the correct one for this kind of stuff. This company should be shutdown & sued!!! You don’t use real people as test dummies!!!💯💯💯✌🏻

[kitty]

CEO Rush would not have lived it out if he didnt go down with these people. He would have probably committed suicide because all of this was because of his negligence. Risk your own life but it's unfair to risk others just because you like to live on the edge and take risks.

[DaveTube]

3:22 the internal pressure is much lower than the external pressure during an implosion event

[LadyOaksNZ]

The only resources they had on board were 1 sandwich and 1 bottle of water each to last the 10 hour dive.. The oxygen on board was never tested to see if it would last 90+ hrs. This was a shoddy profit driven tourist bus.