This Thursday afternoon, United States Coast Guard confirmed that the remains found during the search campaign for giant submarine -Last Sunday, he said he went on a journey to the depths of the ocean in search of remains. Titanic with five people on board – actually corresponded to this ship.
According to the remains found by rescuers, the passengers died when the ship exploded. The captain of the ship, Carlos Augusto Romero, explained what could happen on the ship in an interview with EL TIEMPO.
“Like all boats that perform this type of activity underwater, as they go deeper they are subjected to a large water column pressure. According to the United States Coast Guard report, the Titan may have exploded,” says the captain.
It confirms that internal explosions “may occur because the external pressure supporting the pressure on the hull exceeds the capacity of the structure and the explosion occurs.” “A comparison That’s what we divers do when we smoke a metal soda can.You push it down and that’s what you get into the hull, it crashes and explodes.”
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Explain that the hulls of most submarines are made of steel. “It’s not a regular steel because it allows for pressure effects when underwater. In the case of the Titan, a diver specially designed to descend to 4,000 metres, numerous tests have certainly been made to ensure that the hull can withstand the pressure.. But when these elements are immersed in that material, there is a kind of wear that occurs, and one of the conditions that could occur was material fatigue.”
Captain Romero confirms that certain rules must be followed in advance for such voyages. “While these high-risk activities were being carried out, they had to document that the hulls were resistant to that depth in our submarines, and in Titan, which is a tourism activity.” says.
And he adds: “Situations like these are unfortunate, nobody wants them to happen, but they are.” risk exposure to performing such activities, such as navigating the sea surface“.
“wreck”, the United States Coast Guard said on Thursday Corresponds to the exterior of the Titan submersible, located near the site of the Titanic’s remainsMissing since Sunday with five people on board.
Rear Admiral John Mauger of the Coast Guard also stated that the invaders were dead. The remains of the device were found by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operated by the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic. and later experts determined that they were “consistent with a devastating internal explosion,” that is, a rupture and collapse caused by greater pressure from the outside. Although there is no hope of finding them alive anymore, work will continue to extract the remains of the device.
Mauger confirmed that the bodies of five people have not been found. This was all to try to find out what had happened since the diver lost contact with the outside world on the Sunday the explosion occurred, as well as to find out the causes of the accident.
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