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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
The surprising item that SURVIVED the OceanGate sub implosion
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. The Titan submersible, a carbon fiber and titanium vessel designed to take paying customers to view the wreck of the Titanic nearly 3,800 meters below the surface, suffered a catastrophic implosion during a June 2023 descent, killing all five people on board. 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 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. Rush had championed innovation in deep-sea exploration and was one of the major driving forces behind the Titan's creation and use for tourism. The MBI continues to examine recovered debris.
News.com.au
6 days ago
- General
- News.com.au
Netflix drops trailer of Titan: The OceanGate Disaster
The Titan submersible's ill-fated journey to the ruins of the Titanic dominated headlines in June 2023, yet the shocking decisions that led to the disaster have never been revealed like this before.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- 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
CTV News
24-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Video released by U.S. Coast Guard captures moment of Titan submersible implosion
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
News.com.au
24-05-2025
- General
- News.com.au
‘What was that bang?': OceanGate CEO's wife's reaction to fatal Titan sub implosion revealed in new footage
The wife of OceanGate's doomed CEO unknowingly heard and reacted to the moment her husband's Titan submersible fatally imploded while monitoring the private Titanic exploration on a separate ship, newly released audio reveals. Stockton Rush's wife, OceanGate director Wendy Rush, was listening to audio from the submersible's support ship along with other crew members when a 'distinguishable' popping noise played over their sound system, the New York Post reports. 'What's that bang,' Wendy Rush asked, according to US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation footage viewed by the BBC. Ms Rush and the rest of the staff aboard the support ship, Polar Prince, were tracking the vessel's descent to the resting place of the infamous shipwreck when the tragic implosion occurred 90 minutes into the voyage at approximately 11,000 feet below the surface in the North Atlantic Ocean. The five passengers inside – Stockton Rush, billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58 – were killed instantly. 'You'll hear a noise that's external to the room and you'll see their reaction to it,' one Coast Guard officer explained, comparing the sound to a slamming door. The support ship was not notified of a communication loss for several minutes, leaving the crew on the surface in the dark about the tragedy that took place. Because of the delay between the implosion audio and the communication loss message, Wendy Rush continued relaying messages from Titan back to the crew. 'Dropped two weights,' she said over the radio. A nearby National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorder picked up the implosion. Static white noise filled the airwaves until a thunderous boom and reverb took over, according to the 20-second recording released in February. The Coast Guard's investigation found the Titan's carbon fibre shell had begun to break apart during a previous voyage to the Titanic, approximately a year before the fatal June 2023 expedition. Carbon fibre, not made to withstand the immense pressure of deep-sea exploration, can begin to separate into layers, in the process of delamination. 'Delamination at dive 80 was the beginning of the end,' said US Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Katie Williams, according to the BBC. 'Everyone that stepped on-board the Titan after dive 80 was risking their life.' The fatal voyage was the Titan's 88th mission, and its first deep dive of 2023. Days before its catastrophic demise, the Titan experienced a malfunction with its variable ballast tank — which controls the submersible's buoyancy — causing the platform to invert 45 degrees and sending the back of the craft upward. Rush aborted the dive after all five people on-board were tossed around inside the vessel. Friends of the exploration CEO say he 'knew' his submersible would eventually lead to disaster, but Rush continued with the trips to the Titanic. 'He knew that eventually it was going to end like this and he wasn't going to be held accountable,' Rush's longtime friend Karl Stanley testified last September during a Coast Guard inquiry into the catastrophe. 'The definition of an accident is something that happened unexpectedly and by sheer chance,' Stanley said. 'There was nothing unexpected about this. This was expected by everybody that had access to a little bit of information.' The Coast Guard is expected to release a final report on its investigation later this year, but preliminary findings documented the mangled wreck of the Titan. Pieces of Rush's clothing were found among the wreckage, along with business cards and stickers of the Titanic, according to the outlet. OceanGate has since shut down all operations and said it would co-operate with the investigations.
