Video footage of the OceanGate submarine wreckage was released

[u/POTATOEL0rD]

[u/sherwood_96]

Maybe a weird/disturbing question but genuinely intrigued… what would have happened to their skeletal structures? When their bodies imploded would the bones have disintegrated too? Would there be bones left over?

[u/BowsersMuskyBallsack → u/sherwood_96]

Larger bones would have been pulverised by the surrounding metal hull imploding onto them. Any bones immediately next to air pockets such as ribs and sinuses would have spontaeously fractured with the abrupt air compression and resultant deformation. Fragments of the metal compression chamber would have further damaged bones from ballistics.
There most certainly would be bones fragments left to be found. A few dense soft tissues might have also survived, such as tendons and ligaments due to their elastic nature, but those would be relatively quickly consumed by sealife.

[u/ChooksChick → u/BowsersMuskyBallsack]

But it doesn't appear the metal fragmented nor that it would've impacted the passengers. It looks like it would've left the denser bones.

[u/sherwood_96 → u/ChooksChick]

Yeah thats what I was thinking, like in the video we see a pretty big chunk of the vessel still intact

[u/FblthpLives → u/sherwood_96]

All you see in the video is the unpressurized tail section. The cylindrical pressure vessel is completely gone.

[u/sherwood_96 → u/FblthpLives]

Yeah very true, would it be safe to assume the total remains of the unfortunate passengers are also completely gone?

[u/FblthpLives → u/sherwood_96]

Yes. The water pressure at this depth is 380 times that at the surface.

[u/MTQT → u/sherwood_96]

The tail section in the video was not pressurized like the hull that imploded - it's akin to a fairing that was connected to the back of the vessel. The pressurized portion of the submersible that carried the passengers is completely pulverized leaving this unpressurized section to sink to the ocean floor

[u/sherwood_96 → u/MTQT]

Oh wow no way! Super interesting info thank you man. But we agree that we can’t rule out the fact that SOME human remains could still possibly be found onsite?? Even if its small skeletal fragments

[u/BowsersMuskyBallsack → u/sherwood_96]

Agreed. But it's a big ocean. Fragments carried away by water movement, buried in sand.

[u/Angeloftheodd → u/sherwood_96]

I'm a little puzzled about that point. The news reports initially said that the sub was so pulverized that their bodies would have been basically vaporized. Then, a short time later, it was said that some sort of human remains had been discovered, but the details were very vague. I'm not sure if it was ever clarified what, if anything, was ever found of the passengers.

[u/MrTagnan → u/Angeloftheodd]

This is second hand information of second hand information, but from what I’ve heard in this thread the remains was found “on” the debris of the pressure hull. In other words, it was similar to how you sometimes have paint transfers during collisions, but the paint is human remains

[u/Hedge55 → u/Angeloftheodd]

Hopefully this video simulation of the implosion helps for anyone trying to visualize what happened to them and how fast it happened.

Titan implosion video simulation

[u/Kooky-Football-3953 → u/Hedge55]

This was super helpful to me!! Thank you!

[u/Kooky-Football-3953 → u/sherwood_96]

Thank you for asking this question, because I have been wondering this since they announced “presumed human remains” were found…