The two big drivers of decomposition are temperature and oxygen, Melissa Connors, a director for the Forensic Investigation Research Station at Colorado Mesa University, told Insider. There is no research and little precedent for bodies being found in a highly pressurized and intact vessel, forensics experts told Insider. What happens to the human body in an enclosed vessel? On Monday, the US Coast Guard estimated that there was 70 to 96 hours of breathable air on the sub when it took off. The submersible went missing on Sunday during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. OceanGate released a statement saying they believe the passengers onboard the Titanic expedition submersible have "sadly been lost," the statement read, per CNN. The Titan submersible appears to have had a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," imploding in the ocean's depths and shattering its debris 1,600 feet away from the famous shipwreck its five passengers hoped to explore, the Coast Guard said, meaning the 96 hours of oxygen available to the passengers was likely not even a consideration in the rescue efforts. The missing Titan submersible with five people on board likely would have out of oxygen Thursday morning, but a Thursday afternoon update from the US Coast Guard indicated that the vessel likely imploded before the search and rescue mission began Monday afternoon.
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