Does not look as if it imploded. Was supposed to crush it inwardly.
Yeah...we were told the crew was liquefied, and dead before they knew what hit them. I suppose that once pressure equalized inside/outside, the vessel would be spared additional damage. Flesh and blood, probably not so much.
I think that’s a fairing that wasn’t pressurized.
Front titanium structure was blown off including the tail
Makes me think the failure was on one of the two ends and then it blew the center structure apart.
In about 0.1 seconds
“Does not look as if it imploded. “
the part shown wasn’t the pressure vessel, but a cosmetic shell covering ...
The weakest point(s) would have imploded first immediately crushing those inside, then equalizing the pressure differential and the sub’s rear cone fell to the seafloor.
Mercifully, death would have been within a millisecond for the passengers..................