An eerie music recording, according to the US Coast Guard, appears to show the Titan’s last moments before it imploded strong in the Atlantic Ocean in 2023.
The Titan underwater, operated by commerce business OceanGate, was on an expedition to the Titanic disaster when it imploded on June 18, 2023.
The national oceanic and atmospheric administration ( NOAA ), which is located about 900 miles from the disaster’s site, used an acoustic device to capture the recording. It apparently includes the sub’s “acoustic signature “—the special looks it emitted—followed by a rapid, noisy bang, which experts believe was the time of destruction.
Onboard were five people: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, American businessman Hamish Harding, deep-sea adventurer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Muslim business Shahzada Dawood with his 19-year-old child, Suleman. All five lost their lives in the horror, which sparked a large-scale search and rescue effort.
Following the incident, the US beach watch launched an investigation, holding multiple sessions in September last year. Experts, original OceanGate employees, and witnesses provided evidence on the probable causes of the catastrophe.
The final document on the collapse, which is expected to describe what went bad, has yet to be released.
Last month, a former company revealed that OceanGate’s Titan underwater relied on a personally updated Excel worksheet for routing. Ex-contractor Antonella Wilby criticized the process as “absolutely idiotic” when she testified at a US Coast Guard reading about delays that staff members personally recorded and entered latitude-longitude information. Tony Nissen, a former OceanGate expert, later admitted he had no desire to take part in a test swim. The Titan lost communication at a depth of 3, 346 meters, and used an ultra-short baseline ( USBL ) system to track its position, but data had to be transcribed from a notebook into a spreadsheet.
