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At that depth, it's not "slowly" filling up with water. As soon as the hull is breached, it would violently implode inside of a second.
Ahh, yeah, you're right.
It's not a pleasant process, but a catastrophic failure would be ideal from a "way to go" standpoint.
By comparison the USS Thresher had a small brazing leak, followed by a freezing of the compressed air they tried to fill the ballast tanks with to emergency surface, and then got to experience the bulkheads imploding and slowly be crushed as they sank. There's audio from nearby ships of it imploding online and it's pretty terrifying to listen to.
This is an example of an accident of decompression:
It was likely pretty quick yes
Do we know what depth it was at yet? Last I heard it was anywhere between the titanic itself and the surface.