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Titan, last message from submarine before it exploded in the ocean: “Everything is fine here”

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The submarine exploded in the Atlantic Ocean in June 2023, killing all five people on board. An animated reconstruction of the incident was shown today by the U.S. Coast Guard at an ongoing investigation hearing in Charleston, South Carolina.

“Everything is fine here”: This is the last message received from her. Titanthe submarine that disappeared and then exploded in the Atlantic Ocean in June 2023, killing all five people on board, including Stockton Rush, the co-founder of Ocean Gatethe Washington state company that owns the submarine. The search and the fate of the passengers kept the world glued to the news and television sites for days. In those days, and in the months that followed, all sorts of hypotheses and speculations were floated.

This is what emerged from the animated reconstruction of the tragedy presented by the US Coast Guard at the ongoing investigation. Charleston, South CarolinaThe crew aboard Titan was communicating with support personnel on board the ship. polar prince Via text messages, the report said. As the Titan descended, Polar Prince repeatedly asked the submersible crew for information about the ship’s depth and weight. Then I lost contact.. Polar Prince then sent several messages asking if Titan could still see the ship on his onboard screen. In fact, one of the last replies to come from the submarine was, “Everything is fine here.”.




















































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The Coast Guard said in a statement in early September that the purpose of the hearing was to “uncover the facts surrounding the incident and develop recommendations to prevent similar tragedies in the future.” At the end of the process, the recommendations will be presented to the Commandant of the Coast Guard.There are no words to ease the loss suffered by the families. “We are devastated by this tragic incident,” said Jason Neubauer of the Coast Guard Bureau of Investigation, which conducted the hearing.

“But we hope this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent something like this from happening again,” he added. Coast Guard officials also provided an overview of Titan’s storyunder the pretext of that submarine hull It has never been subjected to third party inspections.

The submarine will also left exposed to the elements For seven months, between 2022 and 2023, it remained untouched. This tragedy opened a debate about the future of underwater exploration and led to a debate about the future of underwater exploration. Ocean Gate Suspension of exploration and commercial operations.

Who are Titan’s victims?

Paul Henri Nargolet, He descended 38 times into the depths of the sky.Atlantic Ocean To admire the wreck of the Titanic, which is now the subject of his books and conferences.

Stockton Rush, president Ocean Gateorganizer and pilot of the Titan submarine mission: someone who considered himself more of a scientist than a businessman, but who went around the world searching for and selecting passengers for his extreme tourist missions, which he preferred to call expeditions.

Then the businessman Anglo Pakistani Shahzada Dawood And his son SuleimanThe latter was terrified at the idea of ​​descending into the depths to see the giant.

September 16, 2024 (changed September 16, 2024 | 7:44 PM)

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