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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
18 Sep 2024
Lilia Sebouai


Watch: Titan sub wreckage discovered on seabed

Footage of the moment the Titan submersible wreckage was found has been released as part of a public hearing into the deaths of the five people onboard.

The search for the vessel, operated by US diving company OceanGate, ended with no survivors being found after it disappeared during a dive to the wreak of the Titanic in June 2023.

The new video, released by the US Coast Guard, shows the Titan’s wrecked tail cone strewn on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Fragments of debris from the submersible and a knot of wires can also be seen close to the wreckage, in footage captured by recovery crews.

The Titan imploded about two hours into its descent to the Titanic, with intense ocean pressure causing it to collapse in on itself off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

The five killed were Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of the vessel’s operator, Hamish Harding, a British explorer, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French diver, and Shahzada Dawood, a British-Pakistani businessman, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.

The five who died onboard Titan: Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman
The five who died onboard Titan: Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman AFP

An inquiry into the doomed final descent, held in South Carolina, is expected to last two weeks.

Among the last words heard from the crew were “all good here”, it emerged on Monday. The crew lost radio contact with a support team on the surface after an exchange of texts about the submersible’s depth and weight.

The disappearance prompted a deep-sea search amid immediate fears for oxygen levels and the safety of the five people on board.

The US Coast Guard estimated that if the Titan was not breached, the oxygen in the submersible was likely to last 70 to 96 hours.

Titan sub
Among the last words heard from the crew were ‘all good here’, but soon after radio contact was lost with the sub AFP

The exact cause of the implosion is still under investigation, but there’s been intense scrutiny of the Seattle-based OceanGate’s past legal and regulatory battles.

David Lochridge, the company’s former director of marine operations, was sacked in 2018, and subsequently sued by the company after he became a whistleblower over safety concerns tied to the doomed Titan vessel.

On Tuesday, Mr Lochridge told the inquiry that the tragedy could have been prevented if US safety authorities had listened to his warnings.

He also criticised OceanGate’s company culture as being obsessed with “making money” and offering “very little in the way of science”.