"Wouldn't have suffered" except for the terror of being in pitch black, freezing water rising in your air pocket, and knowing the boat is sinking.

In order for an implosion to have occurred, there had to have been areas of the stern where the water couldn't leak in fast enough to equalize the pressure, and quite possibly didn't leak in at all... So many of those who died in the implosion may not have even gotten wet before they passed away... hundreds of feet underwater.

Ok, just imagine being that recovery diver for a minute.

Imagine the feeling of being trapped inside an air pocket on the Titanic's stern for 30 seconds after the final plunge, in a complete dark room, realizing (by the fall of the structure and the awful noises it must've made) that the section broke free from the bow and everything is already underwater making its way to the bottom. Then, in a second, the whole thing implodes with you. Dude, it's terrible. I can't even imagine the terror that those who couldn't escape from the stern's interior must have experienced while sinking and being torn apart with the ship's structure.

The story of the guy that survived in the air pocket is terrifying. I imagine it would have been pretty terrifying for the diver that found him too.

On 07 December 1941, at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, the USS Oklahoma capsized after multiple torpedo hits. There was no way to get to the men that had been at their action stations deep below the decks. The men were heard banging on the bulkheads, so they knew there were live sailors trapped.

But those few seconds as the ship descends must have been terrifying... My word... It is truly horrifying to think about.

My work office is on the site where it was built and some boarded in Belfast, like Mr. Andrews (who liked to set clocks on sinking ships) I have lunch in what used to be the ticket office. If I have a bad day, I walk down by the pier where they boarded, and remind myself it could be worse.

Wow, the survivors of the Titanic actually felt and even heard the implosion. I didn't even know that would be possible. Always learning something new. Thanks.

The man in the air pocket for 3 days had the greatest luck ever. Just thinking about that gives me the chills.

Even if there were air pockets, I think we forget that the water was absolutely freezing. They would’ve died of hypothermia pretty quickly. Even stuck in a dark air pocket.

My grandfather survived in an airpocket when his carrier was torpedoed in the Pacific during WWII.

Love the calming music while casually talking about hundreds of people dying.

I can't believe he didn't die of stress and panic, how in the hell did he manage to stay calm for 3 days.

That dude's family must have been so happy to find out he was still alive after 3 days of assuming he was gone forever!

What is even more creepy is that many victims that were recovered are buried just outside of my window in Fairview Lawn Cemetery. I can see them while I type this.