Titanic sub: Videos claiming to show what the explosion looked like are going viral

Titanic sub: Videos claiming to show what the explosion looked like are going viral

Most of these “devastating explosion” videos have been posted on TikTok.

The US Coast Guard has said five people aboard the Titanic submersible missing since Sunday died in a “fierce explosion”, officials said crew members. probably died in an instant, Although some rescue workers are still searching the wreckage to reconstruct the ship’s final moments, videos on social media claim to show what the explosion looked like. One of the clips – an old video of a rail tanker suddenly collapsing on YouTube – shows that the explosion happens surprisingly fast.

Most of these videos have been posted on Tiktok where they are getting a lot of likes. According to new york postOne of them shows a ship that looks like a military sub suddenly flattened, spun into a taco-sized piece of metal and then falls apart – leaving nothing but air bubbles and shrapnel. does not leave.

Another similar video shows Oceangate’s Titan diving towards the ocean floor when it begins to collapse like a crushed tin can, Post It has been said in the report.

The video’s caption said, “The hull would quickly heat the surrounding air to the surface temperature of the sun, as the metal wall and seawater broke through from one end of the boat to the other in about 30 milliseconds.”

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After announcing the possible fate of the missing submarine, Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston that analysis showed that debris found on the ocean floor 1,600 feet (500 m) off the Titanic’s bow was not part of the ship’s hull. The pressure was consistent with the explosion. Chamber.

Mauger said the Coast Guard could not be sure when or why the ship exploded. “We will collect as much information as possible,” he added.

On board were British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargiolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman, and Deputy Director Oceangate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush.