Wendy Rush, the wife of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, hearing the sound of the implosion while watching on from the sub’s support ship. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
On June 18, 2023, Oceangate’s Titan Submersible imploded, killing everyone aboard. Now, newly released audio has captured the exact moment of the implosion.
Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a dive to explore the wreck of the Titanic. Five people were inside: Stockton Rush, the American chief executive officer of OceanGate, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French deep-sea explorer and Titanic expert, Hamish Harding, a British businessman, Shahzada Dawood, a Pakistani-British businessman, and Dawood’s son, Suleman.
The incident occurred about 1,000 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, after Titan began its dive at 9 a.m. ADT. Two hours later, its mothership — submersibles require them to operate, unlike submarines — lost contact.
The footage you see here, which was obtained by the USCG, show the wife of Stockton Rush, Wendy Rush, as she hears the sound of the implosion. “What was that bang?” she asks with a nervous smile.
Sadly, we know now that the bang was the moment the Titan collapsed under the immense pressure. In the hours after, it became glaringly apparent that something catastrophic had happened. The world watched as teams searched for evidence of life, but aside from a few strange knocking noises, there were no signs of life.
As reported by the BBC, ‘The video has been presented as evidence to the USCG Marine Board of Investigation, which has spent the last two years looking into the sub’s catastrophic failure.”
