Oceangate Titan Implosion Blender Simulation

The tragic and catastrophic implosion of the Oceangate Titan I simulated in Blender. The Titan was made with a carbon-fiber composite hull and a titanium frame. Both materials become brittle under extremely high pressures. Carbon fiber frays and splinters, while titanium fractures. This leads to the hull shattering like glass, spewing out titanium and carbon fiber fragments as the water rushes in to fill the airspace. The animation is not entirely accurate: A more accurate portrayal of the disintegration would look more like a dust cloud. As for the interior, the immense pressure caused by the water compressing the air on the inside turns the inside of the vessel into what is essentially the combustion chamber of a car engine, igniting anything flammable and superheating the air inside.

[nocluse]

I am aware of the titanium end caps being intact, this visualization was made before pieces of the wreckage were recovered.

[diegosolis]

To give you an idea of how fast this was: Their brain and nervous system were completely destroyed in less time than it takes for a signal to reach the brain.

[double]

One second you’re biology, the next you’re physics

[iGEAUXHARD]

The Australian engineer who built James Cameron's submersible said "Cameron was obsessive about every detail and would debate for hours as to whether a titanium washer was better than a stainless steel one." That is the kind of attention to detail and seriousness required for such a dangerous venture. Now ask yourself What's worse, Losing your life for $250, 000 or Throwing your life away for $250, 000?

[Nickelodeon]

Needs the front and rear titanium ends to remain intact.

[MrSFSTUDIOS]

I suspect the failure point was at the junction between carbon fiber and titanium where it was merely glued together.

[Demons]

They were turned into mincemeat by the pressure in matter of milliseconds, fast and painless but gruesome beyond imagination.

[KingofNewark]

It still blows my mind that 1 second they're probably in mid conversation and the next they're vaporized.

[kodaph]

The actual implosion, was probably faster than ours eyes can blink. That's how instantaneous it was.

[SallyMars]

It’s hard to even imagine how quickly it happened because it was quicker than what we can even imagine

[mark]

no simulation can accurately depict Rush's illusions of grandeur

[Michiganders]

Titan’s hull was made of carbon fiber instead of industry standard metallic. Bonded to titanium caps on both ends sealed via epoxy and galvanized prone bolts. Ocean Gate played Russian roulette with each dive. Not a matter of if but when.

[yes]

The fact that they got shattered into pieces like glass is disturbing

[UsaKen_PMC]

1912 : This ship will never gonna sink!
2023 : This sub will never gonna implode!

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[CBCycles]

Unfortunately Rush got the last say - he lived life and built the submersible on his (horribly wrong) terms, and died too fast to have learned anything from it

[Solruc_]

"blender simulation" sounds awfully brutal if you don't know what the Blender software is

[luisrivera]

The extremely high temperatures they suffered when exposed to the pressure created at that depth is beyond imagination for most people, thankfully they never knew it happened..

[fxturist]

fun fact: People have died from implosions but no one has ever experienced them. It takes from around 200 milliseconds to 2 seconds for the pain to be received by the brain. They probably didn't even see it as most implosions take around 40 milliseconds. This one was so deep that some people speculate that it could even take nanoseconds (1 millisecond is nanoseconds). Bodies will also never be found. Imagine it as a diesel engine. There's oxygen (gas) inside of the submersible and diesel fuel. When it implodes, the implosion is so fast that it creates so huge pressure that it (with extremely high temperature caused because of it) will destroy every organic material (even bones) inside.

[jherandsoleil]

It may have been painless, but the mental strain they had was there for who knows how long that they were not gonna make it

[AndrewBoniface]

It happens so fast, the didn't even know they died. One second they were looking at the wreckage of the Titanic, the next second they seeing Jack Dawson waving at them.