# "Titan" submersible investigation begins \[28-June-2023\]

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**Created:** [June 28, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titan-submersible-investigation-begins-28-june-2023/986242 "2023-06-28T16:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titan-submersible-investigation-begins-28-june-2023/986242/327 "2023-11-06T00:21:38Z")

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Here’s what I said in a different thread:

> [@The 5 Titanic Sub Victims: what would they look like now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-5-titanic-sub-victims-what-would-they-look-like-now/985993/36):
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> The amount of energy involved is exactly equivalent to the mass of displaced water dropped from a height of whatever their depth was (in a vacuum). Several tons of water (given that the volume was several cubic meters) dropped from a couple of kilometers up.
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> At a certain energy scale, it really doesn’t matter what the materials are. The end result is just a roughly homogeneous mass of the component molecules.

“Molecules” was perhaps very mild hyperbole, but not by much. The result was still a thin meat soup.

The energy was equivalent to perhaps 6 m^3 of seawater dropping by 3500 m. That’s 200 MJ, or about 50 kilograms of TNT. A few human bodies aren’t going to put up much resistance.

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