"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says
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The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.
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The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.
Oof yeah, damn. Or having the vessel slowly fill up with water or something. Honestly any of the possible death scenarios sound terrifying, hopefully it wasn't prolonged suffering.
At that depth, it's not "slowly" filling up with water. As soon as the hull is breached, it would violently implode inside of a second.
Ahh, yeah, you're right.
It's not a pleasant process, but a catastrophic failure would be ideal from a "way to go" standpoint.
By comparison the USS Thresher had a small brazing leak, followed by a freezing of the compressed air they tried to fill the ballast tanks with to emergency surface, and then got to experience the bulkheads imploding and slowly be crushed as they sank. There's audio from nearby ships of it imploding online and it's pretty terrifying to listen to.
It was likely pretty quick yes
This is an example of an accident of decompression:
Do we know what depth it was at yet? Last I heard it was anywhere between the titanic itself and the surface.