Rescuers believed there was a chance of recovering survivors when the Titan submersible vanished in June 2023, because they had heard odd, regular pounding noises that they thought originated from the OceanGate vessel.
Titan Minute by Minute
The Titan Sub Disaster, an upcoming documentary on the submersible’s implosion, will include the unsettling banging sounds, despite the fact that no one survived.
The audio had never before been made available to the general public. The Canadian Air Force, which oversaw the search and rescue operation, provided the sound clip to the documentary crew of ITN Productions in the United Kingdom.
In the documentary
Sonar recordings show four continuous explosions in a recently released documentary clip.
“The symmetry between those knockings is very unusual,” remarks Ryan Ramsey, a former U.K. Navy submarine captain, in the documentary footage. “It sounds like it could be somebody knocking.”
Essential Preface
On June 18, 2023, the tourism business OceanGate brought five individuals in a small submersible known as the Titan to visit the Titanic wreck.
Along for the ride were aviation tycoon Hamish Harding, ocean explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, and CEO of OceanGate Stockton Rush.
According to CBS at the time, the “experimental” submersible was uncontrolled, constructed with components from RV supplier Camping World, and ran on a 2011 Logitech gamepad controller. The Polar Prince ship lost contact with the Titan less than two hours into the dive, and when it did not surface later that day, OceanGate formally declared it missing. Watching from around the globe, rescuers launched a mission to salvage the sub and looked for signs of life for four days.
A remotely controlled underwater vehicle found Titan debris approximately 500 yards from the sunken Titanic’s bow on the last day of the search, indicating a “catastrophic event.”
According to experts, the submerged object most likely burst due to the water pressure at the Titanic location, which was 6,000 pounds per square inch.
The Associated Press reported that the implosion is believed to have happened in less than 40 milliseconds and was almost immediate. Hours after the Titan sank, the U.S. Navy subsequently stated that covert military acoustic detecting equipment detected a “anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion.” Officials from the Coast Guard reported discovering wreckage on the seafloor several months later, in October, along with “additional presumed human remains.” In July 2023, OceanGate Expeditions ceased all commercial activities and exploration.
