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The Independent
3 days ago
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- The Independent
Watch: Titan sub passenger reveals emails warning of flaws in the hull were ignored for over a year
An early passenger of the doomed Oceangate Titan sub has revealed emails he sent warning of potential flaws in the submersible's hull were ignored for over a year. Speaking on the documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster (BBC Two, 27 May), submersible expert Karl Stanley claimed to have come within 'a few percentage points of implosion' after hearing loud cracking sounds in the carbon fiber hull during a 2.5 mile deep test dive in the Bahamas in 2019. Giving evidence to the Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation, Stanley said of his subsequent correspondence with Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush: 'I was very much concerned, that I kept sending him emails for over a year. And I didn't even know a fraction of what we know now. 'I feel this exchange of emails strained our relationship.'
Ammon
3 days ago
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- Ammon
Ship footage captures sound of Titan sub imploding
Ammon News - The moment that Oceangate's Titan submersible was lost has been revealed in footage recorded on the sub's support ship. Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic in June 2023, killing all five people on board. The passengers had paid Oceangate to see the ship, which lies 3,800m down. On board were Oceangate's CEO Stockton Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman. The BBC has had unprecedented access to the US Coast Guard's (USCG) investigation for a documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster. The footage was recently obtained by the USCG and shows Wendy Rush, the wife of Mr Rush, hearing the sound of the implosion while watching on from the sub's support ship and asking: "What was that bang?" The video has been presented as evidence to the USCG Marine Board of Investigation, which has spent the last two years looking into the sub's catastrophic failure. The documentary also reveals the carbon fibre used to build the submersible started to break apart a year before the fatal dive. Titan's support ship was with the sub while it was diving in the Atlantic Ocean. The video shows Mrs Rush, who was a director of Oceangate with her husband, sitting in front of a computer that was used to send and receive text messages from Titan. When the sub reaches a depth of about 3,300m, a noise that sounds like a door slamming is heard. Mrs Rush is seen to pause then look up and ask other Oceangate crew members what the noise was. Within moments she then receives a text message from the sub saying it had dropped two weights, which seems to have led her to mistakenly think the dive was proceeding as expected. The USCG says the noise was in fact the sound of Titan imploding. However, the text message, which must have been sent just before the sub failed, took longer to reach the ship than the sound of the implosion.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Video shows OceanGate CEO's wife react after sound now thought to have been Titan sub implosion
Video footage released this week of Wendy Rush — the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who perished in the 2023 Titan sub implosion — features a noise "later correlated with the loss of communications and tracking," that is now thought to have been the noise of the craft's implosion reaching the ocean surface, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said in an email to Fox News Digital, echoing the description posted with the video on In the video, after the sound is heard, Wendy Rush seems to ask what it was, apparently still unaware of the tragedy. The video was released Thursday as part of the USCG's ongoing Marine Board of Investigation into the incident, the USCG spokesperson noted. Titan Submersible Implosion: Oceangate's Deadly Failure Could Add New Layer To 'Millionaire Thrill Rides' Stockton Rush and the four other individuals aboard the sub all perished on a trip that had been meant to visit the wreck of the Titanic, something it had done multiple times in the past. "Delamination at dive 80 was the beginning of the end," USCG Lieutenant Commander Katie Williams, noted, according to the Bbc. "And everyone that stepped onboard the Titan after dive 80 was risking their life." Read On The Fox News App Oceangate Ceo Knew Titan Submersible Venture Would End In Disaster, Friend Testifies The New York Times reported in 2023 that Wendy Rush's LinkedIn indicated she was OceanGate's communications director. Eerie Video Shows Titan Submersible Tail Cone On Ocean Floor The outlet also reported that she was the great-great-granddaughter of two Titanic passengers who perished in 1912 when the ship sank. Original article source: Video shows OceanGate CEO's wife react after sound now thought to have been Titan sub implosion
BBC News
23-05-2025
- BBC News
Ship footage captures sound of Titan sub imploding
Later this year, the US Coast Guard will publish a final report of the findings from its investigation, which aims to establish what went wrong and prevent a disaster like this from ever happening again. Speaking to the BBC's documentary team, Christine Dawood, who lost her husband Shahzada and son Suleman in the disaster, said it had changed her forever. "I don't think that anybody who goes through loss and such a trauma can ever be the same," she said. The ripples from the Oceangate disaster are likely to continue for years - some private lawsuits have already been filed and criminal prosecutions may follow. Oceangate told the BBC: "We again offer our deepest condolences to the families of those who died on June 18, 2023, and to all those impacted by the tragic accident. "Since the tragedy occurred, Oceangate permanently wound down its operations and focused its resources on fully cooperating with the investigations. It would be inappropriate to respond further while we await the agencies' reports."
NDTV
23-05-2025
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- NDTV
"What Was That Bang": When OceanGate CEO's Wife Heard Titan Implosion
New Delhi: Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, knew exactly when the Titan submersible carrying her husband and four others imploded. She was on the support ship Polar Prince, monitoring the mission, when she heard a sudden loud pop through the communication system during the vessel's 2023 dive to the Titanic wreck. "What was that bang?" Wendy Rush asked, unaware it was the exact moment the Titan imploded deep in the North Atlantic, instantly killing all five people on board. Newly released footage from the US Coast Guard, obtained by the BBC, shows the tragic final moments of communication. Wendy, also a director at OceanGate, was closely tracking the dive when the sub suddenly went silent, about 90 minutes into its descent. The Titan was nearly 11,000 feet underwater when it suffered the catastrophic implosion. BBC and Netflix are releasing documentaries about the Oceangate disaster. In this video the sound of the implosion can be heard. It sounds like a violent way to go. — Ham (@O_MMHam) May 23, 2025 The blast instantly killed Stockton Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son Suleman. The BBC documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, reveals the sub's carbon fibre hull had already shown signs of structural failure during a previous dive a year before the tragedy. "Delamination at dive 80 was the beginning of the end," said US Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Katie Williams. "And every one that stepped onboard the Titan after dive 80 was risking their life." Despite warnings from experts, OceanGate continued using the sub. The deadly trip in 2023 was its 88th dive and its first deep-sea mission of the year. Adding to the confusion, the support ship received a message from Titan just after the implosion, reporting it had dropped two weights to return to the surface. Wendy Rush read that message aloud, still unaware of what happened. At the same time, underwater sensors picked up the sound of the implosion - a sharp blast followed by silence - a video of which was released earlier this year. The clip, shared by the US Coast Guard and sourced from NOAA, contains a sudden static burst, a massive boom, and a chilling return to white noise. It is believed to be the final sound of the vessel before it collapsed under extreme ocean pressure. Following the disaster, the Coast Guard recovered wreckage from the ocean floor, including parts of Titan, clothing, business cards, and Titanic-themed stickers. The agency is expected to release its final report later this year.
