According to underwater archaeologist Dr E Lee Spence, the photos of the recovered Titan pieces show it would have imploded ‘in less than a second’, but stresses the crew would have known ‘things were going seriously wrong for at least a few minutes’.
: ‘They probably had some sort of warning – the shape of the vessel would start distorting, there would have been a crack or a leak.
‘But as soon as there was an actual split, the water would have come in at such a pressure that, once it reached the critical point, it would have happened almost instantly.’ Dr Spence, a 76-year-old shipwreck historian and treasure hunter who has been exploring the ocean since the age of 12, thinks this is because ofWhile he was initially surprised at their size – because an implosion would imply everything was destroyed – he quickly realised that it made sense.
The US-based marine academic explained: ‘You sort of think when something is crushed that it’s like stepping on a tin can and crushing it.Debris from the Titan is being brought to shore ‘But it’s not like that – if it’s crushed, it’s split open and the second it’s split open it’s flooded. So then you have the same amount of water pressure inside and out.’
Dr Spence stressed that he thinks the crew would have known ‘things were going seriously wrong for at least a few minutes’ before the ‘catastrophic event’.
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