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So question to all of you who ARE interested... What about this story makes it so compelling?

If they lost power it would get cold inside pretty fast.  Obviously if they had a major unplanned disassembly ...

• If the reports of banging sounds are true then obviously it didn't implode.
• The control ship must have at least passive sonar (a 100+ year old technology) and an implosion would almost certainly have been audible. 

Am I a weirdo for being completely uninterested in this mess?

A bunch of obscenely rich people did something unbelievably risky, at massive cost and useful for very little more than bragging rights to other obscenely rich people, and are probably now dead or dying at the bottom of the ocean. I mean, I'm sad for them and their families, but beyond that I'm actually not giving this any thought at all.

I might be more likely to follow this if Stockton Rush was NOT among the occupants, because him being above the surface and having to answer for the culpability of this would be a far more interesting storyline. But he's down there too, and unable to answer for what he's done.

So question to all of you who ARE interested... What about this story makes it so compelling?

Am I a weirdo for being completely uninterested in this mess?

A bunch of obscenely rich people did something unbelievably risky, at massive cost and useful for very little more than bragging rights to other obscenely rich people, and are probably now dead or dying at the bottom of the ocean. I mean, I'm sad for them and their families, but beyond that I'm actually not giving this any thought at all.

I might be more likely to follow this if Stockton Rush was NOT among the occupants, because him being above the surface and having to answer for the culpability of this would be a far more interesting storyline. But he's down there too, and unable to answer for what he's done.

So question to all of you who ARE interested... What about this story makes it so compelling?

My guess is that it did NOT implode. I say that for two reasons:

• If the reports of banging sounds are true then obviously it didn't implode.
• The control ship must have at least passive sonar (a 100+ year old technology) and an implosion would almost certainly have been audible.

This was how WWII surface ships knew that they had sunk a submarine, they could hear it break up. That is my "source".

I'm sure that distance would lessen the sound but the control ship would have been nearly exactly on top of the sub so it had to be within 12,000 feet or so.

I think the amount of noise would depend on suddenness. If it sprang a leak and filled up, probably not much sound. If it cracked/shattered (my understanding is that Carbon Fiber does that when it fails), that would have made a lot of racket.

At least that is my guess but I'm not an expert.