Titan: The US Navy would have discovered the implosion on Sunday

The US Navy detected on Sunday the sound of a underwater implosion which probably belonged to the Titan submarine, service officials confirmed to various US media.

According to the Navy, the information was immediately shared with the authorities in charge of the rescue mission, who decided continue the search to try to save the lives of five crew members, The Washington Post gathers.

Detection would be possible thanks to a super-secret acoustic location system. This mechanism, about which no further information has been released due to “national security concerns”, is used to locate enemy submarines. on the territory of the USA.

“The United States Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the submarine Titan was operating when communications were lost,” a senior Navy official told the Wall Street Journal.

For his part, entrepreneur Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of OceanGate, a company that operated tours to the wreck of the Titanic from a submarine wreck, dismissed some criticism of the company’s safety, saying those people don’t have “all the information” to comment.

Speaking to Britain’s BBC Radio 4, Söhnlein, an American of Argentine descent who left the company a decade ago but still owns a minority stake in it, said those commenting on matters related to the safety conditions of the damaged Titan submarine are not “completely informed”.

“People constantly equate certification with security and ignore 14 years of development of the Titan submarine”moan.

According to him, “any expert who weighs this up, including (director James) Cameron, will also admit that they were not present when the submarine was designed, during the engineering process of the submarine, during the construction of the submarine, and especially not when the rigorous testing program that the submarine was subjected to.”

Söhnlein felt that what happened meant something “A tragic loss for the oceanic community” Although he pointed out that anyone who works in the ocean “is aware of the risks of working under such pressure and knows that at a certain moment there is a danger of an implosion of this kind”.

Cameron points out the similarities with the Titanic

“Titanic” director James Cameron has spoken about the tragic explosion of the Titanic – which killed four passengers and its pilot – expressing surprise at its “similarity” to the real-life Titanic itself.

“I am amazed by the similarity with the Titanic disaster itself, in which the captain was repeatedly warned about the presence of ice in front of his ship and yetor he was going at full speed towards the icy area,” confirmed the Oscar-winning director in statements to the American chain ABC News.

“It’s a very similar tragedy in the same place. It’s amazing and really surreal. (…) It’s a nightmare that has crossed our minds at some point,” added Cameron.

Likewise, the Canadian director, who defended the safe practice of diving in deep waters, he emphasized that “a lot of people” expressed concern about OceanGate Expeditions because “what they were doing was too experimental and needed to be certified.”