A submarine expert has revealed the fate of the five people who perished on the Titanic submarine, which was destroyed while travelling towards the Titanic wreck , saying they likely turned to dust in their final moments
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Ofer Ketter, a submarine expert and co-founder of the company Sub-Merge, told the New York Post that the force of the explosion would have instantly turned parts of the submarine into dust grains, as well as the people on board.
"To me, it makes perfect sense that the pressure chamber the passengers were in could not withstand the pressure due to the material it was made of," he said.
«And so it exploded and turned to dust. Anything that was made of titanium or perhaps of another kind of steel survived, and that was what was found».
Ketter said that the five of the Titan submarine were unharmed, as the explosion occurred in less than a thousandth of a second. His comments refer to the announcement of the U.S. Coast Guard in a press conference last week (June 22), where he stated that the recovery of the wrecks would be incredibly difficult.
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Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) investigators announced that they are conducting an investigation into the circumstances under which exploded , in order to ensure that it was not the result of sabotage.
The Polar Prince, the mother ship, has already been loaded into the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, where it will examine audio recordings and other data from the Titan submarine to understand how the tragedy occurred, according to CNN.
TSB president Kathy Foxtold the agency that the agency will collect this information to understand the causes of the incident and to discover what measures need to be taken to reduce the likelihood of similar incidents happening again in the future.
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He added that TSB will work with other agencies and share the data it collects in an effort to understand what happened.
