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The Titan Submarine watch came to a tragic conclusion yesterday at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where the implosion of the vessel was confirmed. Immediately, a new expedition began to reach the site of the tragedy and try to recover the debris of the imploded vehicle, as well as to gather evidence that will help to determine more precisely what happened.
The company Pelagic Research Services, owner of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that found the wreckage of Titan, informed that a new dive would be carried out this Friday. To do so, they again sent Pelagic Research Services' ROV Odysseus 6K from the ship Horizon Arctic in the North Atlantic to return to the site where the Titanic lies.
"The mission is to continue mapping and documenting the area and to assist in any direct debris recovery," the company said in a statement.
Rear Admiral John Mauger, of the U.S. Coast Guard, warned that the work of salvaging the wreckage would continue in response to the tragedy, although in his report on Thursday, he said that the wreckage found was consistent with a "catastrophic implosion", caused by a rupture and sinking caused by the increased pressure from the outside.
At this time there is some missing data to actually say what happened before the implosion
Roger Garcia, director of operations at the Aquarius underwater base in Florida, explained to the EFE news agency that the implosion could have been the result of a "slow and gradual weakening of the chamber material" after previous dives to great depths.
"Based on the debris that was found, what apparently happened was that the submersible's pressure chamber did not sustain at those depths the high pressure, up to 5,800 pounds," which caused an "instantaneous implosion," said Garcia, who is also a diving safety officer at Florida International University (FIU).