Titanic

 

 

 In 2009, Stockton Rush, an American aerospace engineer, founded a company called OceanGate Expedition, with the aim of building submarines of 4 to 6 km depth in the deep seas, which are used for military, research and entertainment (adventure tourism). can be One of this company

The aim was also to take the world's richest people on a submarine tour in the deep seas.

Since 2009, three submarines of this company have gone to the deep sea more than 200 times for various purposes and returned safely. In this regard, an important submarine which is being discussed all over the world today

It was the Titan, which according to the company was designed to go under the sea to a depth of 4 km. Note here that the Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world, is less than a kilometer high, while the base camp at Nanga Parbat is about 4 meters above sea level.

km (3850 m) above.

But who will do tourism in such a depth of the sea and what will happen there? The answer is Titanic. Yes, the same Titanic that was made into a famous movie, the reason for its fame is a scene in it in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the decade of the Titanic.

Looking at the sea with open arms.

(The scene you were thinking of is also famous). By the way, let me tell you that the director of this film, James Cameron, has gone down to the sea 33 times to see its wreckage. Titanic was the biggest ship of its time.

It sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after being struck by debris at sea. The wreckage of this ship is still submerged in international waters 700 km off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The wreck was discovered in 1985. The debris lies about 4 km below the sea

is Oceangate continued to use a submarine named the Titan to show the same wreck to wealthy tourists.

This submarine reached the wreck of Titanic for the first time in 2021.

A ticket for a man on this trip was 250,000 dollars.

Well, for the second time, it took tourists safely to the wreck of the Titanic in 2022. And now for the third time, on Sunday, June 18, it was taking five tourists to show the wreck of the Titanic at sea, only to be contacted by its support boats on the surface, 1 hour and 45 minutes after the start of the voyage.

Disconnected minutes later. After which the news of him spread all over the world and efforts were made to find him. Remember that there was oxygen on this submarine to survive for 96 hours, so it was inevitable that if there was no accident to this submarine and its only If the connection is disconnected

Can be saved.

German first-time visitor to Titan, Arthur Luebel, says that the submarine was not completely safe.

Recalling his trip, he says that after 1000 meters during the trip, the submarine's battery system (the submarine was powered by electricity) failed.

There were some problems but eventually the submarine managed to reach the wreck of the Titanic. And they spent three hours watching the wreckage through its only window and the cameras on it and then returned safely. However, he remembers that the temperature in the submarine is more or less 4 degrees Celsius

Grade was, it was a small submarine in which four to five people could sit together.

what the term submersible is used for. Because it can stay under the sea for only a few hours while a full submarine

They are capable of staying in the sea for several months.

Last week, on June 18, 2023, five people boarded the Titan, including Stockton Rush, the owner of the submarine Me Company Oceangate, British businessman Hamish Harding, French professional diver Paul Henry and Vice President of the Pakistani company Engro.

President Prince Dawood and his young son were included.

The Titan went about 4 km below the sea where the Titanic wreckage was located. It took 2 hours and 45 minutes to reach it. After which he had to see the wreckage of Titanic for three to four hours. And then return had to do The total duration of this entire journey was more or less ten to eleven hours.

On the surface of the earth, humans are under the pressure of the atmosphere, the gases in the earth's atmosphere, which are always on us. This is called 1atm i.e. one atmospheric pressure.

But since humans live on earth..

And they evolved on Earth so we're used to that pressure and it's normal for us. But if you fly in the air above the surface of the earth, this pressure decreases because the atmosphere above is dirtier, so there is less pressure on you due to less air. And if you go out into space, this

The pressure will be completely released.

However, on the contrary, if you go into the sea, the pressure increases further. Sea water is heavier than the gases in the atmosphere. Therefore, after every 10 meters of depth in the sea, the pressure on your body increases by 1 atm. So if you go only 10 meters in the sea

Go down the meter

 The pressure will be 2 atm. This is more or less the pressure inside the cooker used to cook the food.

If you've ever seen a pressure cooker explode, you'll know how high pressure it is. So if you are 4 km down in the ocean

If you go up, the pressure on you will be about 400 times greater than the pressure on Earth. or 200 times the pressure of the pressure cooker.

The Titan submarine was made of titanium metal and carbon fiber that could withstand such pressure provided it was completely sealed and had no fractures.

Nor is his body weak in any way. If this is the case, in such a case, due to the increase in water pressure going down, it will fall on a weak part of it and it will completely cook.

And unfortunately that's what happened.

For five days, this submarine is in the deep sea with boats and robots and marines

The search was done with the help of drones. And yesterday, a part of its wreckage was found a few hundred meters away from the wreckage of the Titanic. According to the reports so far, there was a leak or fracture in this submarine, which caused it to collapse. The water is pressurized and it is a few milliseconds from this intense external pressure

I was cooked. This is such a short time that the brain of the people in the submarine would not have been able to feel the death and their entire body would have been burnt to pieces.

Navy and rescue teams from three countries, the United States, Canada and France, were involved in the search for the submarine.

were And more than 65 million dollars were spent on his search for five days.

After the accident, international organizations and maritime safety organizations are calling for comprehensive regulations, rules and certification to make commercial submarines safer.

It should be done so that such possible accidents can be avoided in the future.