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Originally Posted by Halcyon
Some sources are saying that they heard signs of an implosion straight after communications were lost. So sort of knew the fate of the sub from the very beginning.
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I read a post on Reddit a couple of days ago - before the debris was found - that said because of the time it lost communication it would be highly likely to have imploded as it would be around the time it reached the requisite depth for that to occur.
They mentioned both the sub and the parent ship would have had telemetry that monitors such things and the fact there was no communication publically about this data until the point they lost contact - that they didn't say the hull seemed fine - was a clue.
It looks like this was the assumption of every expert in deep-sea exploration as well. The timing of the loss of contact seems to have tipped them all off that this thing was already gone but so long as they were only 99% sure the rescue operation would continue until they reached that extra 1% certainity.