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Yahoo
10 hours ago
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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
Yahoo
19 hours ago
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Titan submersible items that survived the implosion
(NewsNation) — When the Titan submersible imploded, no survivors were found. Now, nearly two years later, the U.S. Coast Guard has revealed that they found items that survived the implosion. The U.S. Coast Guard found a still-intact ink pen and other items while going through the remains of the Titan submersible. Stylist testifies he jumped on Diddy to protect Cassie In a TikTok video by Discovery, a member of the Coast Guard talked about the recovery process and revealed how the pen was found. The pen allegedly belonged to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. Investigators also found business cards, Titanic-themed stickers, remnants of clothing and human remains. All of those items have been cataloged by the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation. The Coast Guard official in the video explained, 'Items that were inside of the Titan at the time now become encased inside of the endcap.' After the submersible was drained of all its water, officials were able to go through its 'sludge-like' remains of carbon fiber, fiberglass and electronic parts. This is where they found part of Rush's suit still intact. 'We were all just kind of getting all-hands-in and separating what needed to be considered as human remains and what was just other wreckage pieces. As we were pulling it apart, that is how we realized it was Mr. Rush's clothing,' the Coast Guard official said. The Titan pilot's clothing was allegedly found caked in sand. This is where they found the ink pen and other items. 'Inside of that sleeve … it was the ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic, and there was nothing else but that,' the official said in the video. In February 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an audio recording of what it believes was the moment the submersible imploded. According to NOAA, the sound came from a moored passive acoustic recorder around 900 miles from the implosion site. The sound of static can be heard in the 23-second recording, followed by a boom, then more static. The Titan had lost contact after an hour and 45 minutes, with officials spending four days searching for the submersible — that is, until evidence was found on the ocean floor of the implosion. Along with Rush, four other people were killed on the Titan: Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood. OceanGate stopped operations after the implosion. An investigation by Wired showed that Rush had allegedly overstated the timeline for the project and lied about issues with the hull of the vessel. The OceanGate Titan submersible was made of carbon fiber and titanium. It was supposed to take paying customers down to the wreckage of the Titanic, which is over 12,000 feet underneath the water's surface. The implosion killed all five people on board in June 2023. Rush was one of the driving forces behind creating the OceanGate Titan and using it for tourism purposes. The debris is still being examined by the Marine Board of Investigation. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
a day 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.
Yahoo
a day ago
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Investigators Were Surprised by What Survived the 'Titan' Sub Implosion That Killed 5
Multiple items, including a fully-intact pen and and Titanic stickers, were found among the wreckage of the Titan submersible, according to a new documentary A piece of a sleeve from OceanGate founder Stockton Rush, one of five people who died in the implosion, was also found among the wreckage 'There was nothing else but that,' one of the experts said in a clipSeveral surprising items were found at the bottom of the ocean after the Titan submersible imploded in 2023, officials revealed in a new documentary. It has been nearly two years since the ill-fated submersible imploded during a trip down to the site of the Titanic, killing all five people onboard the Titan, including OceanGate founder Stockton Rush. As the Coast Guard sifted through the debris — which turned into sludge after the water was removed — officials found parts of the sub, like carbon fiber, fiber glass and electronic parts, according to new documentary Implosion: The Titan Sub Disaster. But some other, surprising items were found as well. In a clip shared by Discovery on TikTok, U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Kelly Steele said that they also found a piece of Rush's sleeve that was "caked inside of sand." Inside that sleeve was 'an ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic," the official added. 'There was nothing else but that. But each one of those pieces, even the pen, was still intact,' Steele said. "It hadn't been broken. All of this debris. All of these things shattered, but his pen was still intact." Debris from the Titan submersible was recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean days after the implosion in June 2023. Photos from the efforts showed crews pulling multiple crumpled pieces of metal from the water. Photos were also taken by a remotely operated vehicle of the submersible's wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, including one of the vessel's tail cone embedded into the seabed more than 12,000 feet below the water's surface. The photo from the Atlantic Ocean was presented by the U.S. Coast Guard officials last fall as part of a hearing into the tragedy. An animated video that detailed what is known about the Titan's final dive, including how it went into the water from the Polar Prince, its support ship, was also shown at the hearing. Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a noted explorer known for his work with the Titanic who was on the Titan when it imploded, is believed to have sent the sub's final messages to the Polar Prince. The Polar Prince asked the Titan for a status report after informing the submersible, 'I need better comms from you,' to which the Titan replied, 'yes.' The Titan confirmed that they could see the support shit on its display, adding 'all good here' at 10:15 a.m. About a half hour later, at 10:47 a.m., the Titan sent another message that it had "dropped two wts,' referring to its weights, but lost contact with the surface seconds after. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. During the hearing, Former OceanGate contractor Tym Catterson testified that he believed the passengers were not aware of the danger that awaited them in their last moments. "What I found and what I feel is that the implosion happened instantaneously," Catterson testified. "The people in there, they had no idea this was coming,' Chatterson added. "As a matter of fact, they were probably happy to say they were all waiting to see the Titanic when this happened." The Coast Guard is expected to publish a final report on the findings from the investigation later this year. "We again offer our deepest condolences to the families of those who died on June 18, 2023, and to all those impacted by the tragedy," an OceanGate spokesperson tells PEOPLE in a new statement. "After the tragedy occurred, OceanGate permanently wound down its operations and focused its resources on fully cooperating with the investigations being conducted by the United States Coast Guard and the NTSB." Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster is currently available to stream on Max and Discovery+. Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
a day ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Recovery team find surprising item that survived the OceanGate sub
The US Coast Guard recovered a still intact ink pen, along with other items, while sifting through the remains of the ill-fated OceanGate Titan submersible. In a recent video, a member of the US Coast Guard detailed the painstaking recovery process of the Titan wreckage, revealing how the pen - identified as belonging to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush - was discovered among the waterlogged wreckage of the deep-sea tragedy. Alongside the pen, investigators recovered various items, including business cards, Titanic-themed stickers, clothing remnants and human remains. The recovered artifacts have been cataloged by the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation. In the video, posted to TikTok by Discovery , a member of the US Coast Guard broke down the process of sorting through the remains explaining that the Titan's 'endcap' was still intact. 'Let's consider the endcap to be a bowl, a mixing bowl,' the Coast Guard official explained. 'Items that were inside of the Titan at the time now become incased inside of the endcap.' Once drained of all the water, officials were then able to sift through the submersible's 'sludge-like' remains - which included carbon fiber, fiberglass, electronic parts - only to discover a still intact sleeve of Stockton Rush's (pictured) suit. 'We were all just kind of getting all-hands-in and separating what needed to be considered as human remains and what was just other wreckage pieces,' the official said. 'As we were pulling it apart that is how we realized it was Mr. Rush's clothing.' The official explained that the Titan pilot's clothing was found 'caked inside' of sand. 'It was a piece of his sleeve that survived, not the whole suit, just that. Inside of the sleeve of it was the ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic and there was nothing else but that.' The survival of any item in such conditions was unexpected, but the ink pen's intact state stunned investigators. '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 Coast Guard official said.
