Submarine Titan breaks record / Tragedy turned cartoon receives 5 million views in 11 days
An animation depicting how the Titan submarine exploded has been viewed more than 5 million times in the 11 days since the video was posted on YouTube.
The 6-minute, 20-second clip was uploaded to the site on June 30 by AiTelly, a YouTube channel that publishes original 4K and 3D engineering animations, according to the account’s page. The Titan is believed to have exploded on June 18, less than two hours after plunging into the famous Titanic wreck at a depth of about 5,500 meters in the North Atlantic. All five passengers on board the submarine were killed.
The narrative begins by explaining that an intrusion is “a process of destruction collapsing from within the object itself. In the explosion it expands, in the intervention it shrinks.
The accompanying animation showed a 3D OceanGate-branded submarine being crushed and destroyed. He attributes the catastrophic failure to the Titan’s controversial carbon fiber construction.
“Existing technology is based on steel, titanium and aluminum. These are what kept the other submarines from crashing. But the Titan had an experimental design,” the video says.
The animation was created using an open-source software called Blender, according to an AiTelly representative, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid trouble for his current job as an airline engineer.
The spokesperson told The Post that three team members are behind AiTelly. They created the animation by taking information and measurements posted about the submarine on OceanGate’s website and Google, then inputting it into Blender 3D modeling software, a process that took 12 hours, the spokesman added.
