Titanic Tourist Attraction Submarine.

[Michael Rolls]

I didn't look!

[Scrumpy]

I have already eaten..
    This is real life.. I don't think the search team will find anything.. I'm surprised that they don't already know that..
  Let the dead rest.. Leave the Titanic alone.. Stop this morbid curiosity of visiting the wreck..

[klondike]

Reports I've seen suggest that the air within would be compressed so quickly that along with the hydrocarbons (people) the superheated content would simply explode. I doubt there will be anything left to recover. I think the truth is that nobody knows with any certainty. I guess they feel the need to try though.

[Diasi]

I didn't need to see that, especially before my breakfast.

Don't tell me you watched it before you had your breakfast!!

[dextrous63]

Someone did the calcs based on compression and got a figure of around 1300C, which is about the temp of the hottest part of a candle flame.  Given the time for all this to happen, I suspect that fire damage might not be the main issue, but that being crushed at 400bar would be.

[Diasi]

Reports I've seen suggest that the air within would be compressed so quickly that along with the hydrocarbons (people) the superheated content would simply explode. I doubt there will be anything left to recover. I think the truth is that nobody knows with any certainty. I guess they feel the need to try though.

Yes, that's exactly the case, you only have to feel how hot a bike pump can get when you're blowing up a tyre.

Bones will have survived the heat to some degree & bones can't be crushed by the water pressure at the bottom of the deepest ocean floor as none are deep enough.

It's estimated that it would take a depth of at least 35 km of water to crush bones.

However, I think it would be a case of trying to grab a few bone fragments & certainly not complete skeletons.

June 27, 2023, 09:05:20 AM

Someone did the calcs based on compression and got a figure of around 1300C, which is about the temp of the hottest part of a candle flame.  Given the time for all this to happen, I suspect that fire damage might not be the main issue, but that being crushed at 400bar would be.

Yep, what soft tissue wasn't burnt would have been liquified.

[Raven]

Sorry but I can't make myself watch the video either, the very thought of it wigs me out.

[JBR]

I didn't need to see that, especially before my breakfast.

They really seem to have been enjoying themselves, don't they?  🙄 😠

[dextrous63]

Diasi, would the hammer effect of the sides collapsing in not potentially crush the bones somewhat?

Also, as an aside, I saw something the other day about how the Titanic's passenger bodies had dissolved or decomposed over the last century, but their shoes haven't because of the tanning process.  Weird, eh?

[Diasi]

Diasi, would the hammer effect of the sides collapsing in not potentially crush the bones somewhat?

Also, as an aside, I saw something the other day about how the Titanic's passenger bodies had dissolved or decomposed over the last century, but their shoes haven't because of the tanning process.  Weird, eh?

The Titan wouldn't really collapse in the way that metal would, the carbon fibre would shatter rather than collapse & flatten.

I don't suppose you know who made the shoes, I'm lucky to get 10 years out of mine.

[dextrous63]

Good point.  Thanks

[Diasi]

I have already eaten..
    This is real life.. I don't think the search team will find anything.. I'm surprised that they don't already know that..
  Let the dead rest.. Leave the Titanic alone.. Stop this morbid curiosity of visiting the wreck..

It's scandalous that the Titan pilot, who's the guy who bought the rights to the Titanic wreck, site was allowed to buy it in the first place.

The Titanic should be declared a grave & all exploration & retrieval of personal items belonging to the dead should be banned. 

I'd like to think that these 5 have suffered the same fate as many of the Egyptian Pyramid robbers did.

[dextrous63]

Where there's muck, there's brass.

[klondike]

I think that must be wrong. I've checked all over the house and not found a penny. 

[Diasi]

They really seem to have been enjoying themselves, don't they?  🙄 😠

Yes, it's always good if you can enjoy the science.