[imploded_sub]

It wasn't in the crushed part, it was in the camera's shell, and the camera was mounted outside, if I understood properly.

[netsharc]

And:

> This still and video camera is rated to withstand depths up to 6,000m (19,685 feet, 3,281 fathoms)

Unlike the Titan sub...

[mrguyorama]

Why didn't they just build the sub out of camera enclosures? /s

[3eb7988a1663]

The picture looks like the camera + storage SD card were in a sealed metal tube that was untouched.

[HPsquared]

It clearly received a nasty shock when the sub imploded; that's why the internal components were so broken.

[daemonologist]

Although the entire enclosure was shaken around enough to tear bits off the PCB via sheer inertia and crack the CPU (hence the need for the recovery process described).