So Oceangate and the US Navy both recorded the sound of the Titan sub imploding on Sunday.
The company was also aware all electronics on the sub failed simultaneously. James Cameron of all people stated the obvious: that means the vehicle was destroyed instantly.
Hmm.
The media, of course, has been spinning this incident as a race against time when everybody involved knew they were dead from the start.
I think 'strongly suspected that the sub had imploded ' is the right phrase. They detected something that sounded like it could be the sub imploding but...
There's no such thing as certainty in that game. The odds may have been stacked against them coming out alive but...