Titanic sub live updates: Five people on vessel dead after 'catastrophic implosion' - BBC News

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I've assumed that an implosion would be the most likely outcome from the beginning. Once some of the details started to come out about it.

Apparently the porthole window plastic is rated to 1000m depth or something like that. Titanic is about 3000m down. Sounds like they were cutting corners.

It will be interesting now to see what the ultimate point of failure was. I suspect it was the hull myself since it seems the submersible has split in two fairly early into its descent. Likely the hull was stressed on the last test dive.