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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(123,717 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 07:41 PM May 23

Titanic Submersible: New Clip Reveals Implosion Before Final Message

More details about the Titan submersible tragedy have come to light.

Nearly two years after the OceanGate Expedition’s vessel imploded with five people onboard—including CEO Stockton Rush—new footage shows the moment when the sound of the catastrophe reached the ocean’s surface.

As Wendy Rush, the director of OceanGate and Stockton’s wife, monitored data and text communications at a computer alongside employee Gary Foss on June 18, 2023, they heard a muffled thump as the submersible reached 3,300 meters. She asked Foss in the footage released by the U.S. Coast Guard on May 22, “What was that bang?”

The USCG—which used the footage as evidence to the Marine Board of Investigation as for the 2024 case into the incident—wrote alongside the clip that the sound heard “later correlated with the loss of communications and tracking” and explained that it “is believed to be the sound of the Titan’s implosion reaching the surface of the ocean.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/titanic-submersible-clip-reveals-implosion-184009336.html

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Titanic Submersible: New Clip Reveals Implosion Before Final Message (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 23 OP
Chilling Mike 03 May 23 #1
Humans aren't rational creatures Kaleva Saturday #2

Mike 03

(18,466 posts)
1. Chilling
Fri May 23, 2025, 09:00 PM
May 23

I don't know why this story haunts me so. Certainly a horrible event that was so completely avoidable. I watched the hearings but still want to know more about Stockton Rush's complete indifference to the mounting risks eminently qualified people repeatedly warned him about, not to mention the moral responsibility he had not to put others at risk.

Kaleva

(39,414 posts)
2. Humans aren't rational creatures
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:20 AM
Saturday

They can convince themselves to believe most anything.

Stockton’s belief that he knew more on the matter then anyone else lead to not only his death but to the death of others as well.

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