Animation of Titan sub’s demise garners 5 million views in 11 days
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An animation depicting how the doomed Titan sub imploded has been viewed more than 5 million times in the 11 days since the video was posted to YouTube.
The 6-minute, 20-second clip was uploaded to the video-sharing site on June 30 by AiTelly, a YouTube channel that posts original 4K and 3D engineering animations, according to the account’s “about” page.
Titan is believed to have imploded on June 18 — less than two hours into its dive to the famed Titanic shipwreck at a depth of about 5,500 feet in the North Atlantic.
All five voyagers aboard the submersible were killed.
The narration begins by explaining that an implosion is “a process of destruction by collapsing inwards on the object itself. Where explosion expands, implosion contracts.”
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