What is the Titanic wreck’s water pressure?

AN EMERGENCY rescue mission was declared when Oceangate's Titanic submarine went missing in June 2023.

The five passengers on the vanished vessel are believed to be dead.

What was the water pressure on the Titanic depth's PSI?

12,400 feet below the surface at the site of the Titanic wreck, the water pressure is estimated to be 6,000 PSI or 375 atmospheres.

This is the equivalent of feeling 5,500 pounds of force or having 35 elephants standing on one human's shoulder.

On June 18, 2023, OceanGate Expeditions launched a submarine to explore the infamous Titanic wreckage, but shortly after the trip began, it lost contact with the surface ship, launching a days-long search.

Then, on June 22, maritime experts announced that the five passengers aboard Oceangate's Titanic submarine were believed to be dead.

Experts think that the ship imploded- collapsed inwards on itself- due to the water pressure at the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

Who was on the Titanic tourist submarine?

The passengers onboard the tourist submarine included:

• Stockton Rush, OceanGate's CEO
• Hamish Harding, a businessman, aviator, and space tourist
• Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based businessman and billionaire
• Sulaiman Dawood, Shahzada's 19-year-old son
• Paul-Henry Nargeolet, the Director of Underwater Research for E/M Group and RMS Titanic, Inc.

In a statement, Oceangate and the US Coast Guard said: "The debris field is consistent with a catastrophic implosion.

"We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.

"These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans," the statement continued.

"Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time.

"We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew."

Two of the passengers were OceanGate crew members while the other three were tourists who paid $250,000 to be trained to become "mission specialist crew members."