The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released an audio clip of the deadly ocean gate instant Titan explosion. Recordings quietly released through the US last week Defense visual information distribution service (DVIDS) is the first kind to be released by government officials, and has been around more than two years since five passengers on the controversial submarine died on their way to the remains of the Titanic in the North Atlantic. Masu.
The sound of the rupture was captured on June 18, 2023 by a moored passive acoustic recorder about 900 miles from the fatal event. The short clip begins with a small moment of relative silence before a deep, sustained rumble near 400 Hz, according to the accompanying frequency graph.
Founded in 2007, Oceangate began offering private dives to historic luxury liner ruins in 2021. For $250,000 per seat, tourists could ride inside a 2.5-mile 22-foot-long submarine to UNESCO. Underwater cultural heritage site. Titan We conducted several field trips over the next two years, and in many cases we encountered technical issues and communication power outages with the crew of the surface ship. Throughout the excursion, multiple international maritime organizations and experts He repeatedly expressed concern About potential design flaws and the overall operation of the company.
“Your marketing material promotes it Titan The design meets or exceeds DNV-GL safety standards, but Oceanate does not appear to be intending to follow the rules of the DNV-GL class.” Maritime Industry Regulatory Agency. “Your expression is at least misleading in the public and violates the industry-wide professional code of conduct.
June 18, 2023, Titan Radio News was stopped about 103 minutes after a dive that included Ocean Gate CEO Stockton Rush and four others. Officials have announced that remotely controlled vehicles (ROVs) had placed submersible waste nearby. Titanic On June 22nd, it concluded a desperate international search, covering more than 10,000 miles of Atlantic. Experts later confirmed it Titan The hull was defective and he suffered from a sinkhole that was likely close to inhalation. At that depth, the surrounding water exerts the equivalent of 5,500 pounds (PSI) per force (PSI) on the object. That kind of pressure would have caused it Titan To burst in under 20 ms, you can register events faster than the human brain.
The U.S. Coast Guard final rescue mission took place in October 2023 and included a search for “additional presumed human bodies.” Between Ocean Survey Committee The September 2024 hearing confirmed experts Titan The explosion produced approximately 30,000 square meters of debris fields.
The recovery efforts collected hundreds of fragments, but many of the majority of the remains were too heavy to bring to the surface. They are now about 1,600 feet away Titanic.