Posted on 06/23/2023 9:20:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
The aunt of Suleman Dawood, the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic-bound submarine that officials believe imploded on Sunday, said that he decided to join the voyage because he hoped to bond with his father over the trip.
Azmeh Dawood, the aunt of 19-year-old Suleman, told NBC News that her nephew had been “terrified” about the trip but decided to join her brother, Shahzada Dawood, on the expedition to spend time with him over the Father’s Day weekend.
“I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath … It’s been crippling, to be honest,” Azmeh told NBC, adding that she was still in “disbelief” about the whole situation.
“I feel like I’ve been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn’t know what you’re counting down to,” she said. “I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them.”
“He was my baby brother,” Azmeh said of Shahzada. “I held him up when he was born.”
Other victims onboard the sub included billionaire Hamish Harding, French maritime expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush.
According to Azmeh, her younger brother had long been fascinated by the story of the Titanic and repeatedly watched the 1958 Titanic drama “A Night to Remember,” growing up. The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies some 12,500 feet below the surface, and about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hussain and Kulsum Dawood, the parents of Shahzada and Azmeh, asked for continued prayers for those lost in the sub.
“The immense love and support we receive continues to help us endure this unimaginable loss,” they said.
After several days of searching, the Coast Guard confirmed on Thursday that they found debris from the sub which had gone missing on Sunday.
Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said in a news conference that a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) searching the seabed for the missing submersible found the rear cover of the Titan around 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow
The parts of the submersible found by the Coast Guard led them to rule that the debris discovered is consistent with “the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” meaning all five aboard the Titan likely died from a massive amount of underwater pressure that killed them instantly.
Mauger added that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressure
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.
I’ll say they “bonded”.
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Explorer O.E. Gandy stands in his iron suit, weighing 540 pounds, before making a dive where he would reach a depth of 230 feet. 1907.
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His dad put lots of pressure on him to bond.
Bummer if the chain snapped.
Can anyone tell me the truth about the alleged tapping sound that was reportedly heard during the search? Turns out the sub had already imploded, and everyone was dead. So where was the tapping coming from? Was there really a tapping sound, or was that just a lie?
“His dad put lots of pressure on him to bond.”
It was worth it. I’m sure they are just like that now (holds up crossed fingers)
Their surely bonded now...
Sound travels easier in solids and liquids than in air.
Sounds can travel immense distances under water and especially deep cold waters, like there.
It could have been a workman on a ship repairing something a hundred miles away...
Notice the bolted on top half................
He bonded.
It was wishful thinking...if there was actual tapping from the vessel, it would have been something intelligible, like an SOS.
My best guess is that bones would become pulp.
Worked with submersibles in Monterey Bay CA. A favorite demo of pressure was to send foam coffee cups and manikin heads to depth. All gasses got crushed out. A coffee cup came back as a shot glass.
Right.
I used to have a tiny styrofoam cup on my desk!
A joke going around is that the name of the submersible was the SS-Pride, and it was manufactured out of “repurposed Bud Lite cans”.
One gallon of water weighs a little over 8 pounds (sea water would be a bit heavier due to salinity). A typical one gallon water jug is about 10" high.
At 12,000' below the surface that would be like having the weight of 14,400 gallon jugs stacked on top of your head, or using the conservative 8 lb x gallon figure, 115,200 lbs. (57.6 tons) pressing straight down on your head in the area sized the base of a milk jug...but that doesn't even paint the full picture. Even if that weight was a solid (i.e, 57.6 tons of ice) the body would be crushed, but water is of course a fluid, so that same pressure is not just pushing down on top of their head, but simultaneously compressing the body from pretty much every direction.
I suspect there is very little left of their bodies that is even remotely recognizable as human tissue.
They are together in Gods hands.
Had no idea what he was getting into
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