Days ago, a top-secret US Navy system detected Titan’s ‘catastrophic implosion’, according to The Wall Street Journal

“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and discovered an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion near where the Titan submarine was operating when communications failed,” a senior Navy official said Thursday. The Wall Street Journal it’s a statement.

A “catastrophic implosion”, like the one believed to have destroyed the submarine Titan, occurred due to the crushing pressure of the water at the bottom of the ocean. Around 2 p.m. in Ecuador this Thursday, both the OceanGate Expeditions company and the US Coast Guard confirmed the deaths of the five passengers of the submarine that had disappeared since June 18.less than two hours after his dive.

Filmmaker and marine explorer James Cameron has made 33 dives to the Titanic

The US Navy’s top-secret acoustic detection system, reported in the US newspaper, is designed to detect enemy submarines. He first learned of the Titan submarine’s implosion hours after the submarine began its mission, officials involved in the search said.

Shortly after his disappearance, the morning of Sunday, June 18the US system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on the scene, US defense officials said.

“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and found an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion near where the Titan submarine was operating when communications failed,” said a senior U.S. Navy official. Street Journal in a statement.

Among the many theories about Titan’s disappearance, it is believed that the submarine could burst

“While this information is not final, it was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to aid in the ongoing search and rescue mission.” The Navy asked that the name of the specific system not be disclosed, citing national security concerns.

The five intrepid explorers wanted to take a closer look at the remains of the Titanic, which lie on the North Atlantic seabed at a depth of about 3,800 meters in a hermetically sealed ship. At sea level, the atmospheric pressure is about one bar, a level known as one atmosphere.

The implosion is an action in which with a roar the walls of a cavity are broken inward, the pressure of which is lower than the external one.

At the depth at which the ocean liner is located, the water pressure multiplies by 400 the values ​​of the sea surface. For comparison, a bite from a great white shark exerts a force of nearly 275 bar, according to Scientific American.

In an implosion caused by hull failure or any other reason, the submarine would collapse within milliseconds, crushed by the immense pressure of the water.

Death would be almost instantaneous for the occupants.

The Titan, built by OceanGate Inc. of Everett, Washington, was designed to withstand the extreme water pressure at Titanic’s depths and had made previous dives on the wreck.

But some questions had been raised about its safety, most notably in a lawsuit involving OceanGate’s former director of maritime operations, David Lochridge, who was fired in 2018 after being warned about the Titan’s “experimental” carbon fiber hull.

Roderick Smith, an engineering professor at Imperial College London, said the accident was likely due to “faulty pressure hull” but that the wreck must be recovered for a full investigation.

And even with that material, it can be difficult to pinpoint the cause. “The violence of the implosion can make it very difficult to determine the sequence of events.”