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What Investigators Found Inside Titan Submersible Wreckage After Explosion
It has been nearly two years since OceanGate Expeditions' Titan tourist submersible imploded, and new details about the tragedy continue to emerge. On June 18, 2023, a submersible trekking toward the bottom of the ocean to view the wreckage of the Titanic imploded approximately 90 minutes into the trip. All five people onboard—including OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush, Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British businessman/adventurer Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman/philanthropist Shahzada Dawood, and Dawood's 19-year-old son Suleman—died in the accident. Now, as E! News shared on Thursday, we're getting even more information about the tragedy via a new Discovery documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, which premiered earlier this week. One of the many fascinating details revealed include what items actually survived the implosion intact—including Rush's clothing. 'It was actually caked inside of sand,' U.S. Coast Guard investigator Lt. Kelly Steele says in the documentary. 'It was the piece of his sleeve that had survived. No, not the whole suit. And inside of the sleeve of it was [an] ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic.' Sadly, those were the only items investigators found. 'There was nothing else but that,' said Kelly, though he seemed to marvel at the fact that 'Each one of those pieces, even the pen, was still intact. It hadn't been broken. All of this debris, all of these things shattered, but his pen was still intact.' Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, directed by Pamela Gordon, is a recounting of the doomed journey, its aftermath, and the details investigators and others are still learning. The 90-minute documentary is streaming now on Discovery+ and HBO Max. What Investigators Found Inside Titan Submersible Wreckage After Explosion first appeared on Men's Journal on May 30, 2025
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2 days ago
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‘Expedition Unknown' Host Josh Gates Toured OceanGate Titan Sub in 2021 and Found It ‘Non-Functional'
Discovery's new documentary 'Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster' premiered Wednesday night, revealing that 'Expedition Unknown' host Josh Gates actually toured the OceanGate Titan submersible two years before its infamous 2023 implosion — and the adventurer deemed what he found concerning. In 2021, Gates began working on an 'Expedition Unknown' episode with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who tragically died along with four other passengers on a planned deep sea expedition to tour the wreckage of the Titanic. They intended on putting a spotlight on Rush's seemingly game-changing underwater explorations. Things did not go according to plan, however, as Gates' first trip underwater in Rush's sub was mired by enough technical problems that he ultimately decided to scrap the episode altogether. 'We all rely on that Spidey Sense. We all have that little voice that whispers to us. In my job, I've learned I have to really listen to that voice,' Gates explained over footage of himself hesitantly agreeing to being bolted inside the Titan sub with Rush. Noting that the vessel came equipped with no escape hatch of any kind, Gates told the 'Implosion' team that 'Stockton just didn't see — even psychologically — the need for a way out of this sub.' 'We were in the sub for hours with Stockton,' Gates revealed later in his 'Implosion' interview over video footage of his and Rush's aborted dive in 2021. 'The dive was interesting in that nothing really worked right. The sub didn't really do anything it was asked to do.' After describing a number of the errors that the submersible experienced during his time in it, Gates concluded, 'It was non-functional.' He also recalled the conversation he had with Rush in the wake of their failed dive, including one instance when the OceanGate CEO revealed that he had ignored his sub's carbon fiber weaknesses during one of his own deep sea descents. 'Once I saw that that was where he was willing to go to get this operation up and running, a kind of fear set in for me that was so much deeper than anything I experienced while riding in the sub,' the 'Expedition X' host admitted. Gates' very obvious concerns, as well as his decision to pass on his planned OceanGate project, were not enough to stop Rush from spearheading the fateful 2023 Titanic expedition that resulted in the deaths of French deep-sea explorer and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood and the latter's 19-year-old son, Suleman. 'Implosion,' notably, features audio of the very bang that is suspected to be the implosion of the Titan sub. It also features comments from Christine Dawood, the wife of Shahzada and mother of Suleman. 'We all know who the culprit is,' she pointedly notes in the documentary. '[It] does not change anything, does it?' 'Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster' is streaming now on Max. The post 'Expedition Unknown' Host Josh Gates Toured OceanGate Titan Sub in 2021 and Found It 'Non-Functional' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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2 days ago
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Titan Submersible: What Investigators Found Intact From Wreckage
Originally appeared on E! Online New details about from the Titan submersible tragedy continue to emerge. Nearly two years after the implosion of OceanGate Expeditions' small tourist sub killed all five passengers, investigators shared what was found in the wreckage, including personal items belonging to the company's CEO Stockton Rush. "Mr. Rush's clothing—it was actually caked inside of sand,' U.S. Coast Guard investigator Lt. Kelly Steele said in the new Discovery documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, which premiered May 28. "It was the piece of his sleeve that had survived. No, not the whole suit. And inside of the sleeve of it was ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic." Steele continued, "And there was nothing else but that. But each one of those pieces, even the pen, was still intact. It hadn't been broken. All of this debris, all of these things shattered, but his pen was still intact." The documentary detailing the doomed voyage to visit the Titanic wreckage also features footage of what the Coast Guard believes is the moment the Titan sub imploded. More from E! Online Savannah Chrisley Reunites With Todd Chrisley in Florida After Prison Release Justin Bieber Reacts to Wife Hailey Bieber's $1 Billion Beauty Deal Eddie Murphy's Son Eric and Martin Lawrence's Daughter Jasmin Are Married While monitoring communications from the sub, Rush's wife Wendy Rush—the director of OceanGate—is shown reacting to the sound of a muffled thump as the vessel reached 3,300 meters. Addressing employee Gary Foss, she asked, "What was that bang?' The Coast Guard, which released the OceanGate-recorded video just ahead of the film's debut, noted in a Department of Defense news release that the sound the two heard from the monitoring station "later correlated with the loss of communications and tracking" and that it "is believed to be the sound of the Titan's implosion reaching the surface of the ocean." In addition to the CEO, 61, billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, 58, French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood also died in the tragedy, which occurred more than two miles beneath the surface off the coast of Newfoundland. Read on for more about the five victims of the Titan disaster... For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
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3 days ago
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Why did it happen? Could it have been prevented? BBC iPlayer has just got Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster about the catastrophe that shocked the world
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. BBC iPlayer has just added Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, which is also being shown today [Tuesday, May 27] on BBC Two at 9 pm. Two years ago, the world watched in horror as a frantic search and rescue mission was launched for the Titan submersible, which had been diving 13,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean as part of a tourist expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. On board were 19-year-old Strathclyde University student Suleman Dawood and his father, Shahzada, 48. Their fellow crew members were businessman Hamish Harding, expert submariner Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and the inventor of Titan, Stockton Rush. Just an hour and 33 minutes into the voyage, however, the submersible lost contact with its surface ship, the Polar Prince. Four frenetic days unfolded in an attempt to locate it, until the US Coast Guard confirmed the five crew had died in a catastrophic implosion. Now, BBC iPlayer's documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster hears from Christine Dawood, who was waiting on board the Polar Prince when she learned the fate of her husband and son. "The moment we knew they'd found debris and there were no survivors, my daughter Alina and I went on deck," says Dawood, from Surrey. "Until that moment we'd had hope. We took some cushions with us and just sat there looking out at the ocean. We were both crying." With unprecedented access to the Marine Board Investigation, as well as previously unseen footage from Titan's previous dives, the documentary reveals how the submersible had equipment issues leading up to the disaster. Not only that, but Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, which built, owned and operated Titan, had openly boasted about breaking rules. So could the implosion have been prevented? "In hindsight, would I have wanted them not to go? Absolutely, but I can't really say I'd have denied them an opportunity like that," says Dawood. "Sometimes I still don't believe it. The possibility of Titan imploding never crossed our minds. "To lose a husband is terrible, but no parent should have to grieve for their child. It's unnatural. All of a sudden your purpose, your identity, is ripped away from you." Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster is on BBC iPlayer now.
Indianapolis Star
3 days ago
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Where is 'Implosion' streaming? How to watch the new doc about Titan submersible
In 2023, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and his passengers traveled deep into the Atlantic Ocean, planning to explore the RMS Titanic's wreckage. Before they reached their destination, the submersible they traveled in imploded, killing all five people on board. Recently, newly released footage revealed the muffled sound the submersible's communications team heard after they lost contact with the vehicle. Now, a new BBC documentary shares the evidence of what happened in the deep-sea tragedy. The new documentary is being broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 28, on the Discovery Channel. Check your local listings for more information. As of Wednesday afternoon, "Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster" was listed as "Coming Soon" on Max and Discovery+. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it'll be available on those services May 29. It's also scheduled to come to Netflix in June. Watch 'Implosion' on Max with Disney+ bundle Rush's wife, Wendy Rush, is seen with Gary Foss, part of the submersible's tracking and communications team, on June 18, 2023. They were monitoring data and text while the vessel traveled deep into the North Atlantic Ocean. "What was that bang?" Wendy asked. On the footage, the sound is a muffled thump, and neither Rush nor Foss seemed alarmed. That sound, the U.S. Coast Guard said, "later correlated with the loss of communication and tracking" and "is believed to be the sound of the Titan's implosion reaching the surface of the ocean." The video was provided to the Coast Guard by OceanGate Inc., the company that owned the submersible. The Coast Guard has yet to release the final report of its investigation. Titan submersible: Read more about the new footage in USA TODAY It wasn't just a movie, kids. It's real. The RMS Titanic, deemed "unsinkable," hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Thousands of passengers died. At the time, the news industry operated much differently, and Indy papers had differing reports of what happened.
