The very scary photo of Titan’s submersible devastation has been shown publically, showing the watercraft that took the lives of five passengers, buried, thousands of feet below in the dark sea.
A large portion of the upright hull of Titan Sub is shown in the picture, half buried in the sand of the cold Atlantic Ocean. Other proofs along with communication, were delivered on September 16 by the U.S. Coast Guard during a lengthy hearing that examines the cause of the Titan’s June 2023 implosion.
The U.S. Coast Guard renovated the unlucky journey of the Titan submersible, at 9:17 a.m. set for its dive into the cold Atlantic Ocean to see the skeleton of Titanic.
The Marine Board showed an animation model in support of the Titan submersible hearing.
The inquirer shared some of the last discussions between Titan and its support staff on board the Polar Prince.
The Polar Prince was allowable by OceanGate, the company that engineered and handled the Titan watercraft which was taking five passengers.
In Titan, there was the pilot Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, co-pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a Titanic expert, and three tourists, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, both belong to a rich Pakistani business family and Hamish Harding, a British businessman and adventurer.
At the time of the voyage, the Titan talked with its mother ship through text messaging.
Today, the Coast Guard’s Marine Board inquiries evidence from former OceanGate employees Tony Nissen, Bonnie Carl, and Tym Catterson to explore the Titan submersible’s loss.
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According to support staff, 40 minutes into its dip disappeared and “needed better comms” from the sub, which had temporarily “lost system (and) chat settings.”
The Polar Prince asked about the watercraft’s deepness and weight, then at 10:15 a.m., also texted the asking if the Titan could still see the Polar Prince on its onboard display.
The last message received from Titan boarders “all good here” and after that underwater craft sinks further.
Their final message from the Titan team said that it had “dropped two wts,” indicating the weight of the underwater craft.
According to CNN, meaning that the underwater craft had shed two measures of weight in hopes of going back to the ocean’s surface.
Approximately, after 2 minutes The Polar Prince lost track of the sub.
Hopelessly found in the cold water southeast of Newfoundland, Canada, the team hoped to save the passengers of the Titan before it collapsed in itself.
But the rescue team continued the operation to search for the human remains and when they found them, sent for matching the DNA of the five men on board.
Tony Nissen, the former engineering director of OceanGate, proclaimed that the Titan had been hit by lightning in 2018 and it might have had a compromised hull.
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Offering his statement, Nissen said that he wasn’t “surprised that it failed where it did,” and that he “100%” felt pressure from higher-ups to get the Titan into the water.
Nissen further explained that in 2019, he forbade sub to the Titanic as it t was “not working like we thought it would.” and he dismissed that year.
“I stopped the 2019 Titanic dive because of the data, and I was fired for it,” he said.
Some days before the video was released of Titan, showing the tail of Titan half buried in the sand of the Atlantic Ocean to provide clearer condition and clearness.
The coast guard officials said the Titan was left exposed to weather and elements while in storage for seven months in 2022 and 2023. The hull was also never reviewed by any third parties as is standard procedure, investigators said.
CNN writes that The Marine Board of Investigation said the images – captured by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) – offer “conclusive evidence” that the vessel experienced a “catastrophic implosion.”
The hearing will occur in the last two weeks and point to “uncover the facts surrounding” the Titan’s fatal implosion, said the Marine Board of Investigation.