a consensus in a debate we had was that the result was an implosion as a result of their quick descent.
funnily enough my grandmother painted a picture in all of our heads of the son on the submarine's lungs imploding shortly before the rest of the people on board suffered the same fate
we thought this because of a discovery made by coverage investigators that the controls were underfunded and in part damaged before launch, leading you easily to the obvious assumption that certain things like *emphasis on* welds per se could have been underfunded as well, which would be a leading cause to a pressure leak—leading to the *implosion*
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