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OceanGate tragedy: 'Mythbusters' shows deep-sea implosion effect on human body, video goes viral

The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan sub suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' on Thursday

By Bakhtawar Ahmed |
OceanGate tragedy: Mythbusters shows deep-sea implosion effect on human body, video goes viral
OceanGate tragedy: 'Mythbusters' shows deep-sea implosion effect on human body, video goes viral

The OceanGate owned Titan submersible, which made headlines after going missing on Sunday with five explorers to see RMS Titanic wreckage site, suffered a "catastrophic implosion," killing everyone onboard.

Following the tragic incident, the internet has been flooded with bone-chilling TikTok videos, animated demonstrations on how the ‘catastrophic implosion’ happened killing all the Titan passengers onboard.

Meanwhile, a clip from an old episode of the TV show Mythbusters has resurfaced on Twitter after a ATikTok account @ChudsOfTikTok posted the video as a comparison of what happened on the Titan submersible.

In the now-viral video clip from episode 19 of season 7 of Mythbusters, show hosts Jessi Combs, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara conducted an experiment to investigate the myth that while using an old pressurized suit during a deep-sea dive.

For the experiment, a human-shaped mannequin – made of pig parts – was used with bones, muscle, fat, skin, and a midsection of guts.

The mannequin was put in an old diving suit and they sunk it 300 feet underwater, where the pressure is about nine times great than at sea level.

The experiment showed rapid change in air pressure and as soon the air supply was cut, forcing most of the suit's meaty contents into the helmet and the suit itself collapsed inward.

The video received over 340,000 views since it was posted on the ChudsOfTikTok Twitter page.

On Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan suffered a "catastrophic implosion” and confirmed death of five passengers Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate; French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet; multi-millionaire British explorer Hamish Harding; Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood; and his son Suleman Dawood.