For five days the world held its breath, awaiting news as the clocked ticked down for the five people aboard the missing submersible. There was only 96 hours of oxygen to keep the occupants alive – but in the end none of it was used. Because, as we know now, they likely died instantly when the sub lost contact with its support vessel. There was no banging on the sub walls, no slow suffocation, no desperate thoughts of being rescued. Instead there was a “catastrophic implosion” that would’ve killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, instantly when the vessel was crushed by high pressure waters at a depth of some 3 800m.

Source: The Times June 29, 2023 10:09 UTC