Bone-chilling TikTok clips show what the “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan submersible might have looked like — a terrifying re-enactment of the event that killed five passengers in the North Atlantic’s treacherous depths.
Implosions occur shockingly fast, as demonstrated by an old animation of a railroad tanker suddenly collapsing.
TikTok animaters extrapolated what that might have looked like underwater, TheNY Post reports.
In one clip, posted by user @sincerelybootz, a vessel that looks like a military sub suddenly flattens out, curls into a taco-shaped piece of metal, and rips apart — leaving behind nothing but air bubbles and shrapnel.
“It’s very instantaneous as far as death when it comes to any lives that may be on board,” the narrator states.
In another clip, posted by user @starfieldstudio, the OceanGate Titan is careening toward the sea floor when it begins to crumble like a stomped tin can. Metal explodes after the implosion, leaving no trace of the craft.
“The hull would immediately heat the air in the sub to around the surface of the sun’s temperature, as a wall of metal and seawater smashed one end of the boat to the other, all in around 30 milliseconds,” the caption reads.
On Thursday, the US Coast Guard announced that an implosion killed all passengers instantly as they plummeted to the sea’s black depths to explore the 111-year-old remains of the Titanic.
Debris from the Titan wreckage found on the ocean floor — some 12,500 feet below the surface — is “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” which means the weight of the ocean crushed it sometime after the Titan lost touch with its surface vessel Sunday.
An unmanned undersea probe found five big pieces of debris about 1,600 feet from the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912. It’s not clear what caused the implosion. The ship’s hull is still missing, authorities said. But the debris would only have been found if the vessel had suddenly imploded.
The Coast Guard didn’t say whether there was any plan to recover bodies.
The passengers lost on the vessel were British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman.
“We offer our most heartfelt condolences for the loved ones of the crew,” Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said Thursday.
The US and Canadian coast guards mounted a massive search for the sub, which only had about 96 hours worth of oxygen. But it was too late.
“Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time,” OceanGate said in a statement.
“We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.”
This article was originally published by The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.