The submariner told what could happen to the bathyscaphe that disappeared in the waters of the Atlantic

While the search for the missing Titan submersible with people on board continues in the Atlantic, experts put forward possible versions of what happened.

For example, a fire could have occurred on a ship due to a battery and water could enter, the captain of the first rank, chairman of the club of submariners in St. Petersburg, Igor Kurdin, suggested, NSN writes.

“The submarine is checked for tightness before each exit to the sea. This is a mandatory procedure before diving. Whether such checks were carried out on this bathyscaphe … I doubt it very much, ”Kudrin said.

He also did not rule out that when immersed, the body of the apparatus could not withstand and water entered.

Kudrin noted that the estimated time for the bathyscaphe to dive to the Titanic was about eight hours. “It moves both horizontally and vertically very slowly, this is not a nuclear submarine. Therefore, when the connection was lost after 1:45 minutes, it should be assumed that he did not reach the calculated point and something extraordinary happened, ”said the submariner.

Earlier, NBC reported that the hull of the bathyscaphe that went missing in the Atlantic Ocean was showing signs of “cyclical fatigue.”

Recall that on June 18, the bathyscaphe of OceanGate Expeditions disappeared from radar during an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was reported that five people were on board – British billionaire Hamish Harding, founder of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush, French scientist Paul-Henri Nargeole, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with his son. For participation in the expedition, each of them gave about $ 250 thousand. According to the latest data, oxygen on board was left for several hours. The search operation continues.