The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a bone-chilling audio recording of the moment the Titan submersible imploded, instantly killing all five passengers.
The never-before-heard audio clip published online Friday captures staticky white noise followed by a loud boom and reverb — and then the static again.
Officials said the boom is the sound of the sub imploding before reaching the Titanic wreck site on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023.
The OceanGate Expeditions submersible imploded in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023. Becky Kagan Schott / OceanGate ExpeditionsThe eerie, 20-second recording of the disaster was picked up by a moored passive acoustic recorder about 900 miles away from where the OceanGate vessel buckled under the water pressure.
The US Coast Guard said the clip reveals “the suspected acoustic signature of the Titan submersible implosion.”
The sub’s passengers — OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush, UK billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and father and son Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood — were all killed in the implosion.
The eerie, 20-second recording of the disaster was picked up by a moored passive acoustic recorder about 900 miles from where the OceanGate vessel buckled under the water pressure. U.S. Coast Guard
Debris recovered from the ocean floor is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at St. John’s, Newfoundland, on June 28, 2023. AP
Titan submersible passengers (clockwise from top left) Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, father Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Dirty Dozen Productions/OceanGat/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Titan’s mothership had lost communication with the small submersible less than two hours into the dive — sparking a frantic, four-day search for the missing vessel before debris from the wreck was discovered on the ocean floor.
A Coast Guard investigation into the deadly disaster revealed that the sub had several structural flaws and safety hazards and had not been independently reviewed — as is standard practice — before setting off for the depths of the ocean.
