(Dan Tri) – Investigators need to collect debris from the Titan submersible to find out the cause of the explosion because the ship does not have a `black box` like an airplane.
Titan submersible (Photo: OceanGate).
The Titan submersible carrying 5 people went missing in the Atlantic Ocean while exploring the wreck of the Titanic on June 18.
`The debris shows that a catastrophic explosion occurred in the pressure chamber,` Mr. Mauger said.
According to Ryan Ramsey, former British Royal Navy submarine commander, to answer the question of why the incident occurred, the authorities will collect as many fragments as possible of the Titan ship.
`Submersibles do not have `black boxes`, so you will not be able to find the last traces related to the movement of the ship. If there were black boxes, the investigation process would be similar to a plane crash.`
Once investigators bring the wreckage of the submersible to shore, they will look for fracture structures in the carbon fiber structure.
Each fragment will be carefully examined under a microscope to examine the direction of the carbon fiber, looking for tears that help determine the exact location of the fracture.
According to Professor Blair Thornton at the University of Southampton, the big question that investigators will have to find an answer to is whether the cause of the incident was due to a structural error or not.
`We’re talking about a very powerful explosion of the main shell,` Mr. Thornton said.
Another important question is if this actually happened, whether it was due to a lack of testing, as some experts have suggested.
`Carbon fiber fails due to errors in its structure,` said expert Roderick A Smith at Imperial College London.
Similarities between the Titanic tragedy and the Titan ship explosion
James Cameron, director of the blockbuster movie `Titanic` (Photo: Getty).
James Cameron, director of the 1997 blockbuster `Titanic`, said on June 23 that he was surprised by the `strange` similarities between the 1912 tragedy and a recent accident involving a submersible.
According to Mr. Cameron, before the tragedy occurred, several leading experts in the scuba diving community wrote to the company, expressing concern about the safety of the Titan submersible.
`I was surprised by the similarity of this incident to the Titanic disaster, when the captain was constantly warned of an iceberg ahead, but rushed at full speed into that iceberg on a moonless night and the consequences were terrible.
`And a similar tragedy happened in the same location, when warnings were ignored and dives were still going on all over the world. I think that’s amazing. It’s really strange.`
Director Cameron once dived to the bottom of the sea 33 times to observe the wreck of the Titanic.
Mr. Cameron said that when he first heard about the Titan’s disappearance earlier this week, he contacted his diving team and discovered that, within just half an hour, the ship had lost contact and lost track of the ship.
`The only scenario that came to my mind was an explosion. The shock wave was so powerful that it destroyed the ship’s pressure system and its own power supply to maintain the equipment that helps track the ship’s position.`
According to the New York Times, in 2018, a group of dozens of people ranging from manufacturing company leaders to oceanographers to explorers sent a letter to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
Mr. Will Kohnen, Chairman of the Manned Diving Equipment Committee of the Ocean Technology Association, also confirmed on June 20 that this letter comes from fear of what could happen if OceanGate does not comply.
The letter said that OceanGate launched a promotional campaign asserting that Titan would meet or exceed the safety standards of testing unit DNV.
5 businessmen and experts were present on the missing Titan submersible including: Stockton Rush – CEO and founder of OceanGate, Hamish Harding – British businessman, Shahzada Dawood – Pakistani billionaire, Sulaiman Dawood – son of
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