<story><title>Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1671954007261151237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Well, this explains a lot... they didn&amp;#x27;t have a window rated for the right depth and weren&amp;#x27;t really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode.&lt;p&gt;The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation.&lt;p&gt;And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Denvercoder9</author><text>&amp;gt; And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.&lt;p&gt;Or something else entirely. There&amp;#x27;s a surprising amount of unexplained noise picked up from the ocean.</text></comment>
<story><title>Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1671954007261151237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Well, this explains a lot... they didn&amp;#x27;t have a window rated for the right depth and weren&amp;#x27;t really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode.&lt;p&gt;The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation.&lt;p&gt;And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonah</author><text>In the press-conference they said both end bells were found separately - no mention of whether the window was still intact. It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see the failure analysis.&lt;p&gt;[Edit] Link to video with a description of the major debris found: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;A0xJ220Fod4?t=263&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;A0xJ220Fod4?t=263&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;the front end-bell of the pressure hull - that was the first indication that there was a catastrophic event&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;the aft end-bell which basically...comprised the totality of that pressure vessel&amp;quot;</text></comment>