Doomed boss of Titan sub made haunting joke ahead of disaster | CC68LYQ | 2024-03-09 11:08:01
The boss of the doomed OceanGate Titan submarine made an eerie joke simply weeks before the disaster killed all five people on board in milliseconds.
Stockton Rush was the CEO of Oceangate, the company in control of the expedition to the Titanic wreck in June 2023.
Recording of a radio interview given to St John's Radio in Canada simply weeks before the doomed trip has lately re-emerged.
In the course of the interview, Rush joked: 'What might go flawed?'
He defined the reasoning for choosing June to enterprise to the wreck: 'So with the Polar Prince [the vessel that carried the submarine out to sea], that ice capability we thought, let's move the mission a bit of earlier this yr.
'We particularly designed the submersible for this mission.'
The clip shall be featured in the Channel 5 documentary 'Minute by Minute: The Titan Sub Catastrophe', which is airing tonight and tomorrow.
Final week, chilling audio revealed the rhythmic banging sound which gave hope that the Titan submersible victims might nonetheless be rescued alive.
The Titan misplaced contact with its mother ship whereas on an expedition to& investigate the wreckage of the Titanic& on June 18, 2023.
A frantic search was launched and the households of its passengers – Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, Sulaiman Dawood, 19, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, and Mr Rush, 61 – have been left waiting for updates.
Late into the second day of the search, noises have been being detected in 30-minute intervals, deep underneath the ocean.
The common, steady beat caught the eye of specialists and sparked hope that the banging could possibly be SOS alerts.
Sadly, Titan had imploded and killed everyone on board& because of monumental water strain.
Ten days after its disappearance,& the Coast Guard introduced that 'presumed human stays' had been found in the wreckage of the sub.
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