00:00With all five passengers aboard the Titan vessel believed to be dead,
00:04many people say they would have been too claustrophobic to get on the submersible in the first place.
00:10Social media has many people chiming in saying they feel claustrophobic just looking at it.
00:15Clinical psychologist Cynthia Shaw tells HuffPost,
00:18quote,
00:19Claustrophobia can also rear its ugly head when learning that others are in a small space
00:24because a person can easily imagine themselves in a similar situation, unquote.
00:28Indeed, the time following the announcement that the U.S. Coast Guard said debris discovered
00:34is consistent with a catastrophic implosion,
00:37loved ones of the passengers have thought of their relatives gripping onto life in such a small space.
00:43Azmay Dawood, the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shehzada Dawood
00:47and aunt of 19-year-old Suleiman who were aboard the vessel, told NBC News,
00:53quote,
00:53I am thinking of Suleiman, who's 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath.
00:58It's been crippling, to be honest, unquote.
01:01Dawood says she's been having trouble breathing herself since learning of her loved one's fate.
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