‘All Good Here’: One of Titan Submersible’s Last Messages Revealed Before Implosion
The five-passenger Titan crew was in communication with the mother ship before the vessel imploded, likely within milliseconds.
Among some of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew was one that might've pacified any worries from the OceanGate mothership, the Polar Prince.
According to BBC, following the vessel's descent, which lasted just under two hours before its tragic implosion on June 18, 2023. Investigators from the U.S. Coast Guard have reportedly shared that one of the final messages from a member of the group, sent one hour into the dive, was "all good here." The message was in response to the mothership support personnel asking about the submersible's weight and depth, in addition to whether the ship was visible from the onboard display.
The final message was sent at 10:47 local time, when the submersible reached 3,346 meters and dropped two weights before all contact was lost.
Those who perished on impact during the deep-dive expedition were OceanGate CEO and pilot Stockton Rush, 61; French Titanic expert and sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet; British businessman and aircraft pilot Hamish Harding; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Sulaiman Dawood, 19.
The five men planned to visit the Titanic wreckage before the fatal incident occurred at depths of 5,500 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of St. John's, Newfoundland, in Canada. Also discovered in the investigation was an image of the Titan's tail cone from the wreckage, which sat on the sea floor following the implosion.
As OceanGate has since suspended operations, former employees are set to testify during the ongoing Marine Board of Investigation. "There are no words to ease the loss endured by the families impacted by this tragic incident,” said Jason Neubauer of the Coast Guard Office of Investigations, per ABC 3. “But we hope that this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent anything like this from happening again."
