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Unseen footage of the imploded Titan submersible has been shared by the US Coast Guard following its implosion off the coast of Canada last year.
On Monday (September 16) a public hearing was opened into the deaths of the five people who were onboard the doomed submersible in June 2023.
Tragedy victims included Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet alongside British adventurer Hamish Harding, father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush.
It’s understood all five passengers had boarded the sub with hopes of reaching the wreckage of the Titanic, thought to lie around 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland. However they were all killed as intense ocean pressures caused the experimental watercraft to implode.
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During the hearing held by the US Coast Guard, various new details have come to light, including the final words of those said onboard and a chilling video of the wreckage.
The presentation claims that at one point during the ill-fated trip, the sub sent a message to its support vessel, the Polar Prince, saying ‘all good’.
It was later confirmed that after the last correspondence was sent on June 18, the vessel was later destroyed by a ‘catastrophic implosion’, as per the US Coast Guard.
After hearing about the final words of the Titan passengers, the first photograph of the submersible on the Atlantic Ocean floor was shared with members of the Charleston County Council Building in South Carolina.
Following the image - snapped by a remotely operated vehicle on June 22 2023 - haunting footage has now emerged of the sub’s initial discovered.
In the clip, shared by the US Coast Guard, the camera shows the cone of the sub on the ocean floor before revealing a large panel had broken away.
The footage then showed the camera scouting around for further significant pieces of debris before realising that the cone was the only part present in the area.
Elsewhere, the hearing has already called on former OceanGate contractor Tym Catterson and Tony Nissen, OceanGate Expeditions’ former engineering director, to testify on the accident and previous issues.
Nissen, who was allegedly fired from OceanGate in 2019 after blocking a trip in the submersible to the Titanic, claimed that the sub was hit by lightning during a test mission in 2018.
Moreover, he claimed he felt ‘pressure’ to get the Titan into the water and that he wasn’t ‘surprised that it failed where it did’.
Catterson however claimed the day the submersible went missing was a ‘good day’ for the vessel and that there had been no immediate ‘red flags’
The Titan sub enquiry is expected to continue for two weeks with more information and detail set to come to light.
