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.
All this info makes me wonder why intact artifacts were retrieved from the Titanic. Why didn’t the weight of the water crush everything, including the ship? There were shoes and dishes and chandeliers and many other items that were in their original form. Enquiring minds want to know.
That ship slowly sunk. The rapid implosion is what caused the problem. That wasn’t there on a slowly sinking ship.
Creamation
“Creamation” — lol. Cream of Flesh & Bone?
Creamation, Cremation or Crushmation...not much difference in the end. You are fish food.
Carbon fiber is super strong and light until the moment if fails catastrophically.
We knew this in sailboats decades ago.
For example, a boat made of mild steel will deform radically but not fail. Yield strength is 2/3 of tensile strength. This means slamming into a reef or a semi-sunk cargo container will result in a huge dent, but the hull will not crack wide open.
A composite hull relying heavily on carbon fiber is way stronger and lighter than steel or aluminum. But its yield strength is like 98% of its tensile strength.
When it fails, it fails catastrophically.
The Titan debris field is going to be a million carbon fiber toothpicks. The titanium front hemisphere and the steel aft hemisphere will be ready to go again.
Toothpick-size carbon fiber shards will be the next souvenir.
Implosion under such pressures forces air etc out of all voids in the body, most notably lungs, but down to the gaps in bones where the marrow is. They’re an organic soup at best.
Cameron has the same take that I do.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1672315069034536960?cxt=HHwWgICxpb3soLUuAAAA
I absolutely respect that point of you 100%.
I’ve watched him this week
He’s pretty astute in this
I didn’t know this about him
Solo dove Marianna 2012 in Aussie upright tube submersible
Crazy
And the Rolex on the robotic arm functioned to bottom and back !
Items that are not crushed are things that have no air pockets or hollow areas that allow for differences in pressure.
If an object has equal pressure inside and out, then it will not be bothered by the massive pressure.........................
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