It's found in five pieces near the Titanic on flat surface away from Titanic. (So they ask if it crashed into it?) Imploded Coast Guard Admiral says. Was it blown up? Why did it implode?
They say this sub was not registered by agency to be safe. So privately they can use it, charge $225,000.00 a ride? No one checks it out spending that much money?
I'd like to hear from James Cameron at this time. He has taken 33 trips, with others down to view the Titanic.
WTF happened?
What happened?
Ocam's Razor version: OceanGate took on a project they will ill-equipped to handle, cut corners on safety, and paid the price for it.
US Navy big nuke subs can only go down to about 2000' or so, not even a half mile. Titanic sits at 2 miles under water. There are subs that can go that deep, even deeper, but they are highly engineered, tested, and inspected before making such a dive. OceanGate engineers were a bunch of "inspirational" diversity hires vs "a bunch of 50 y.o. old white guys" with actual experience running subs per CEO Stockton Rush.
Titan's hull was carbon fiber. Most deep sea subs have like 5" thick steel walls and are bathysphere shaped to handle the immense pressure. I'm sure deep sea subs are gone over with a very fine safety inspection between dives as even a small crack could be catastrophic at that depth. Those subs are engineered to handle twice the pressure needed, have multiple redundancies and backups and are run by the best crews available, even if it means (gasp!) hiring 50 yo white guys who ran subs in the Navy.
Just a guess, but OceanGate probably ran tests with their sub in shallower waters, had stress cracks in the carbon fiber, and then ran Titan with passengers. Or maybe they just didn't design it right in the first place and it got crushed like a beer can under the immense pressure.