“Everything is fine here” It is one of the last messages sent from the Titan submersible before it implodes in 2023 during an expedition to the remains of the Titanic in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, as revealed on Monday by the US Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard’s Maritime Board of Inquiry began a two-week hearing Monday into the June 18, 2023, accident that killed all five people aboard the OceanGate-owned submersible.
At the hearing, the Coast Guard released for the first time an image of the Titan’s remains and released some of the crew’s last messages.
Diving to reach the Titanicwhich is located at a depth of about 3,800 meters, the Titan sent a series of text messages to a support vessel on the surface called Polar Prince, as reported. Efe.
At 2,274 meters below sea level, the submersible sent one of its last messages: “All is well here,” according to an animation created by the Coast Guard to recreate the accident. The last message out of the Titan was “throw the weight.”
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At 3,346 meters, communications were lost with the submersible, the remains of which were found four days later on the ocean floor and it was determined that all five crew members, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, had died in the vessel’s implosion.
The first to testify at the hearing, held in South Carolina, was former OceanGate CTO Tony Nissen.who was laid off from the company in 2019.
Nissen said he was pressured by Rush to speed up the Titan’s launch schedule, and revealed that years ago he refused to pilot the submersible because he distrusted the operating personnel.
