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Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Business
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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
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘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
- General
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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
News18
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News18
US Man Reclaims Guinness Record Balancing Chair On His Chin
Last Updated: David Rush, a US-based author and speaker, broke 15 Guinness World Records in one day. Serial record-breaker David Rush has reclaimed his title for the longest time balancing a chair on his chin, with a time of 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 30 seconds. Mr Rush, an American author, lecturer, and performer, who enjoys pushing himself, holds well over 180 Guinness World Records. The longest time balancing a chair on the chin was one of the most unique titles he held before Christian Roberto Lopez Rodriguez of Spain broke it with a time of 1 hour, 19 minutes, and 17 seconds. Rush, determined to reclaim the title, trained hard before going ahead. The record-breaking competition took place at the West Boise YMCA in Boise, Idaho. Rush used a tan Adams low-back patio chair from Lowe's hardware store. It was around 31.5 inches tall and weighed 4 pounds 3.5 ounces. He intended to balance the chair on his chin, resting the top of the backrest upside down, until he beat Rodriguez's time. The attempt had a solid beginning with the chair steadily resting on his chin. He maintained a straight back; his head facing the sky. Rush stood with his back straight and his face tilted forward, balancing the chair upside down on his chin and carefully correcting his posture whenever the chair slanted. Upon surpassing the target time, Rush was ecstatic to beat Rodriguez's time, pumping his fists in the air while carefully maintaining the balance of his chair on his jaw. He finally set a new world record with the time of 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 30 seconds. The Guinness World Record veteran, who has won over 180 titles, broke 15 records in a single day. Among his astounding achievements, Rush managed to juggle three apples and take 198 little bites from them in a single minute. He then used his skill to accomplish the difficult task of bouncing a table tennis ball on two bottle caps 10 times with alternate hands in just 2.09 seconds, setting a new record. He switched to baseball, achieving a new record of 125 touches with alternating hand sides in 30 seconds. Additionally, he created the most back-of-the-back basketball passes against a wall in 30 seconds. First Published: May 29, 2025, 18:13 IST
International Business Times
a day ago
- General
- International Business Times
Investigators Left Stunned After Finding OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush's Ink Pen Intact While Sifting Through Debris of Titan Submersible
The U.S. Coast Guard recovered an ink pen that remained intact, along with several other personal effects, while sifting through the debris of the doomed OceanGate Titan submersible. In a recently released video, a Coast Guard official explained the meticulous process of retrieving the Titan wreckage, noting that the pen—confirmed to have belonged to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush—was found amid the waterlogged debris from the deep-sea disaster. Besides the pen, investigators also recovered a wide range of items, such as business cards, Titanic-themed stickers, fragments of clothing, and human remains. All of the recovered artifacts have been documented and cataloged by the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation. No Damage Even After Two Years The Titan submersible—a carbon fiber and titanium craft built to transport paying passengers to the Titanic wreck site nearly 3,800 meters beneath the ocean's surface—suffered a catastrophic implosion during its descent in June 2023, resulting in the deaths of all five passengers on board. In a TikTok video shared by Discovery, a U.S. Coast Guard official explained the procedure for examining the debris, noting that the sub's "endcap" remained intact amid the wreckage. "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." After all the water was drained out, officials meticulously sifted through the submersible's thick, sludge-like debris—which contained carbon fiber, fiberglass, and electronic components—and eventually uncovered an intact sleeve from Stockton Rush's 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." Surprising Finds Underneath the Sea The official said that the Titan pilot's clothing was found embedded in 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 official said. Given the extreme conditions, finding anything intact was unexpected, but the fact that the ink pen survived in perfect condition left investigators stunned. "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. Rush was a strong advocate for innovation in deep-sea exploration and played a key role in the development and operation of the Titan for underwater tourism. The Marine Board of Investigation is still analyzing the recovered wreckage.
