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Yes, of course I understand all that. The state of matter of the occupants has changed……dramatically. I have questions about the timetable as compared/contrasted between the CG and the people running the tourist trap. Evidently the CG was monitoring the Titan from the moment it was released. Then we are told all communication was lost about an hour later. But that that was expected and it was also expected to resume 8hrs later. We were told the people running the tourist trap did not notify anyone that anything might be wrong until the 8hrs had elapsed. So what did the CG know and when did they know it. The CG it appears was able to pinpoint the debris field based on the data it had collected due to the incidence of implosion. Based on that data it went directly to 1600ft from the Titanic and post hast located the debris field. It would seem the implosion occurred on the sea floor, 1600 ft from the Titanic.

So, did the CG have a better tracking system of the Titan than the operators at sea level?

The first hint of a timeline came Thursday evening when a senior U.S. Navy official said that after the Titan was reported missing Sunday, the Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data and found an “anomaly” that was consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the vessel was operating when communications were lost. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive acoustic detection system.

The Navy official who spoke of the “anomaly” heard Sunday said the Navy passed on the information to the Coast Guard, which continued its search because the Navy did not consider the data to be definitive.

David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, argued in 2018 that the method the company devised for ensuring the soundness of the hull — relying on acoustic monitoring that could detect cracks and pops as the hull strained under pressure — was inadequate and could “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.”

“This was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” Lochridge’s attorneys wrote in a wrongful termination claim.

https://apnews.com/article/missing-titanic-submersible-updates-93a59c3c1d48aee2feef46caca418fd1