Confirming the deaths of five passengers on the missing submarine’s expedition, experts say the victims died in a “catastrophic” implosion in which they instantly killed everyone on board, leaving their bodies in pieces.

There is no chance to return the bodies of the dead who were on the submarine – Photo: @Terror_alarm/Twitter/Reproduction/ND

In an interview with NBC News, Professor Paul White, an acoustics and underwater forces expert at the University of Southampton in England, explained that the force of deep sea pressure is so colossal and immediate that a submarine will disappear before any crew member could even imagine what was happening.

“Catastrophic” submarine explosion

Passenger deaths would have been due to the fact that the OceanGate capsule was made of carbon fiber, an experimental material not tested at great depths.

The submarine would have withstood an external pressure equivalent to about the weight of the Eiffel Tower from 10,000 tons of iron.

Thus, the force of the water would set off a series of explosions that would cause the submarine to disappear in a matter of seconds, leaving little to no trace, and the passengers would die the moment the mass of water hit them, the professor said. .

Blair Thornton, professor of maritime autonomy at the University of Southampton, says the submarine passengers did not feel any pain.

“This whole process happened in the blink of an eye, at the snap of a finger. I don’t think there was any suffering or any awareness of what happened.”

For Dr. Nikolai Roterman, a deep-sea researcher at the University of Portsmouth in England, said finding any body would be a “major problem.”

“And I think the priority at this point is to recover as much of the wreckage as possible,” he commented, giving his opinion on what could help clear things up.

The passengers were Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeole.