The Real Reason The Titanic Isn't Crushed, According To Science

the insane pressure at the bottom of the ocean will destroy just about anything so why has the Titanic remain remarkably intact down there for over a century the tragic destruction of the ocean Gates Titan exploration vessel in 2023 left folks with a lot of questions mainly what exactly happened in the submersible lost contact with its support ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent was

there a structural defect in the Titan that led to its implosion was it human error I feel that this is this was such a preventable tragedy not every vessel that sinks in the water implodes though the Titanic might be a decrepit crumbling mast at this point but it still has its original boat shape and it's been sitting nearly 13 000 feet under the surface of the

ocean since 1912 but the deeper underwater you go the stronger the pressure gets as Scientific American says pressure increases at a rate of 15 pounds per square inch every 10 meters below the surface that means for the first 10 meters down the water pressure feels about the same as the air pressure when you're walking around on the beach below that things start to to feel really

compressed really quickly so what if a vessel is designed to be a perfectly airtight self-contained bubble like a submarine but still has some defect it'll get instantly crushed from the outside the Titanic on the other hand isn't a sealed vessel like the Titan was and thus hasn't been affected by pressure in the same way water pressure is no joke a Scientific American explains the pressure felt

when underwater comes from the water above you and that's why things feel more compressed the deeper you go into the ocean the entire mass of the ocean is sitting above your head and down at the Titanic's depth while the pressure per square inch equals around 6 000 so no you wouldn't survive for one fraction of a second down there unless protected in an airtight submersible shell

and yes a submersible would crumple in an instant if it had the slightest defect or crack somewhere death would be instant in fact the pressure is so severe in the deepest depths of the ocean that folks have to rise slowly to avoid getting decompression sickness also known as the bends Harvard Medical School says that decompression sickness symptoms include joint pain dizziness numbness and difficulty thinking and

when descending into the deep the pressure inside a submersible needs to stay equal to the pressure on its surface it needs to push out as much as the water pushes in you feel somewhat like you're on a totally different planet as you descend to better understand why the Titanic didn't crumple like a paper ball when it sank to the bottom of the ocean it can look

at a simple comparison The Washington Post says that a car door has up to 600 pounds per square inch of pressure pushing on it from the outside if a car dives into the water so if you fly off a pier you'd have to be pretty strong in order to get the door of your car open but that's only because of the difference in pressure between the

inside and outside of the car open a window and the pressure differential vanishes because water floods inside the Titanic on the other hand sits at a depth subjected to six thousand pounds per square inch that's 10 times more than your hypothetical car door flat slabs of Steel won't get squished down there like slices of bread neither will the railings in the deck or any objects inside

by the time the Titanic hit bottom any pressure differentials across its hall or throughout its interior sections had long balanced out much of the current Decay and decomposition we see across the Titanic comes not from water pressure but from the exchange of oxygen molecules between metal and water so for now it seems the wreckage of the Titanic is safe if anyone is willing to risk the

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