After all five members of the submersible crew have been presumed dead by the U.S. Coast Guard, questions arise about if their bodies can be recovered and which country will lead the investigation into the tragedy. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.
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can't they still ggather the clothing of the victims? just like how they found the remains of shoes on titanic?
Who did up the 17 bolts to the vessel? Not blaming them, but just want to hear and watch them talk about the fact the passengers were actually in the vessel. Using antiquated, romanticised maritime terminology like "they are believed lost" or "the sub is lost" is not addressing things directly. Sorry, but it's not. Saying it would be difficult to recover the bodies implies that they are there. Just say "there are bodies there" or "there are no human remains to be seen" or say "it would be difficult to recover the bodies if indeed they are in fact there, as visible remains, whether very small or bigger." But everybody avoids the question, and skirts around it, diverting to more maritime, hazy romantic language that is never applied for plane crashes in the sea, or for train crashes that are crushed like coke cans, or other explosive or implosive things that were not first hand witnessed. I understand that there are difficulties under the sea, but there was never any remark about how difficult it was to retrieve treasure from inside the Titanic, be it lots of bottles of champagne or jewels or gold and other items consistent with the size of human remains that allegedly have gone through an implosion, without acknowledging the decibel of the anomaly heard by the navy, to see if it could have been a sperm whale using "gunshot" echolocation, and biting or ramming the vessel. They are apex predators and can go deep. If you calculate the descent at 75 feet per minute over 105 minutes, it would have been 2400 metres depth that contact was lost. Whether the anomaly "bang" sound was simultaneous or a half second before is crucial to knowing if it was possibly a whale that caused the extra pressure on the hull. Hasty and fervent conclusions have been drawn about the implosion hypothesis without allowing for other reasons why it could have imploded, as well as confirmation of any body fragment being necessary – as I am sure they are aware of and avoiding at all costs – in order to identify if they were in there at all, and other possibilities such as small missile etc. We need every single possibility. Why have we not been shown images of the "debris field", nobody has any qualms about significantly awful crashes on land, strewn throughout the media. If it is too sensitive to show incase it upsets relatives, why aren't those considerations applied to land disasters? Think laterally, people, for goodness sake. We need some evidence to prove this is not a fraud, a hoax to escape payouts or other financial complications or perhaps even benefits. I agree with a person further down these comments section that says more trips to Titanic should be stopped. Our reasons might differ. I am concerned about how it affects creatures at that depth, with blue light from LED which creatures have spent millions of years evolving to live in total darkness. Any spawning signal that it triggers, or any damage to the skin or acoustic abilities of any creatures down there from being disturbed with the whizzing and buzzing and lights of deep sea tourism on a regular basis – even a daily basis, has to be taken into account, acknowledged. Finally, I would like to clarify the difference between tourism and serious underwater, fully trained people in a specific field of endeavour such as engineering or science at a top level, to be the only people who should go down to survey and collect data. Some will disagree, but sea creatures and the effects of our investigations in deep sea exploration needs more examination before carrying on about safety of passengers to keep increasing an industry in deep sea tourism. We must learn to distinguish the difference between reality being manipulated to fit mass perception, and perception being manipulated to fit reality. We must learn to know that the world has truth and it has untruths. We must learn that distinguishing is difficult, but there are red flags to watch out for.
Yeah because they liquidated
They don't want to come out and say it on national tv but there's nothing left to recover. That kind of pressure obliterated the bodies and the temperature generated from it is equal to that of the sun. If there were any fragments left at all , it was likely consumed by marine life. I don't mean to sound morbid but the families can take solace knowing their loved ones felt no pain. It takes approximately 100 milliseconds for the brain to register pain from our nerve endings and around 13 milliseconds to process visuals. The catastrophic implosion happened within 1 millisecond, possibly a nano second. Their bodies were gone before any cognitive recognition could be processed. It's probably the most humane way to go in history.
And the fact that there are no bodies to collect. They turned into gel when it imploded. Their remnants were eaten by fish etc if there was anything tangible left at all
Imagine the Big Bang, but in reverse. That essentially sums it up.
Literally said recovering the bodies will be difficult because "you cant put a diver in the water that deep because he would be crushed"
Exactly! There are no bodies left. They were reduced to pink spray in an instant.
It’s sort of like Everest. It’s dangerous to retrieve remains. Very sad.
To calculate the total force exerted on the human body at 12500ft, we need to multiply the pressure by the surface area.
173,381 psi * 3000 (large male total surface area) square inches = 520,143,000 pounds.
good luck finding whatever that looks like.
uhm… afaik from that depth a human body simply turns into a bloody goo… probably some small bone shards here and there but that's about it, and likely already buried in the sand or washed away by underwater current… nothing really to recover down there aside from the metal debris
We should not put in the effort recovering the bodies.
What bodies? There’s nothing left after implosion
There are no "bodies" to recover. The bodies would have been instantly liquified/boiled into nearly nothing, instantly.
There are no bodies. Sorry but stop treating us like Children and acting like Children. 'There are no bodies'
Dude… go watch True Blood. The vampires explode when killed. Imagine that goop but shrunken down to fit in a coke can. True Blood mixed with the Ant man shrinking technology.
At these pressures there wouldnt be any bodies.
The implosion would have just burst the Titan, there is no disintegration of bodies as many believe. The bodies are in tact but down in the bottom of the ocean.
Hate to break this to you but the bodies are not going to be recovered……….ever.
Lol what bodies? They’re gone, bro. Implosions don’t leave bodies behind and neither do the fishes.
where is the youtube police, this needs to be fact checked as fake news ….. there's nothing to find
J.P. Morgan doesn’t want evidence released that it’s actually the “Olympia” instead of the Titanic.
Retrieve bodies? An implosion would instantly vaporize every atom of your being, there’s nothing to retrieve
NBC still grifting this story when they were likely aware it had imploded on Monday. And now "body recovery?" There are no bodies left. NBC knows this.
Did it really implode
What bodies?🔥
These 4 men were explorers. They understood the risks. May their families find peace 🙏💔
Unknown what marine life exists at that depth but most wrecks have triggerfish that act like piranhas. Most everything in the ocean has teeth and eats meat. Something may remain and be found, however.