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Implosion likely caused by 'instability'

Chairman of the US-based Manned Underwater Vehicles Committee, William Kohnen, said the implosion of the Titan submersible was likely caused by “instability”.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Kohnen said: “Clearly, something disturbed the pressure hull.

“If you’ve ever held a balloon and it just pops, if you just hold it lightly… something happened.

“An implosion is just a reverse explosion, so it exploded inwards.”

Earlier in the programme, Guillermo Sohnlein, co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, was asked about the potential cause of the implosion.

He said: “Anyone who operates in that depth of the ocean, whether it is human-rated submersibles or robotic submersibles, knows the risks of operating under such pressure and that at any given moment, on any mission, with any vessel, you run the risk of this kind of implosion.”

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