Titanic sub implosion live updates: Oceanographer reveals ‘smoking gun’ in sub disaster
Ocean Gate’s Titanic-bound submersible went missing on Sunday with five passengers killed in a ‘catastrophic implosion,’ according to the US Coast Guard. Follow the Post’s live updates.
Television cameras caught the stunned reaction of the cofounder of deep-sea submersible company OceanGate as he learned debris was found in the frantic search for the missing Titan.
Entrepreneur Guillermo Söhnlein, 57, was visibly shaken when a BBC journalist interrupted their interview to report a search team had identified a debris field on the ocean floor.
“I’m sorry…some what has been found?” the startled Söhnlein asked.
The interviewer replied he had no details on the ominous finding.
Titanic aficionados have pointed out a bizarre coincidence between the tragic ocean liner and the Titan submersible that imploded en route to the wreck with five crew members on board.
“In 1912, Thomas Andrews, the Man who designed the Titanic Ship sank with it,” one commenter wrote on Twitter on Friday.
“111 years later, the man who designed the Titanic Submarine #OceanGate Titan sank with it in 2023 at the same spot.”
Thomas Andrews was the managing director of Harland and Wolff, the Belfast firm that built the Titanic for the White Star Line. He was only 39 years old when he went down with the Titanic after it struck an iceberg during its maiden voyage on April 15, 1915.
Over 111 years later, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush – who famously skirted safety protocols when designing the Titan submersible – perished alongside four others when the vessel imploded en route the Titanic’s resting place on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean.
A remote-operated vehicle later identified debris from the Titan about 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow.
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron slams search for missing sub as ‘nightmarish charade’
“Titanic” director James Cameron has slammed the days-long search operation for the doomed Titan sub as a “nightmarish charade” — insisting he knew that the vessel had imploded just hours after it lost contact with the surface.
Cameron, a submersible pioneer who has made 33 trips of his own to the Titanic wreckage, told the BBC on Friday that he “felt in my bones” the Titan submersible had been lost soon after the news broke that the five people on board were missing.The 68-year-old director said the subsequent hunt for the submersible — including the countdown of how much oxygen supply was left and that banging noises had been heard — “felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade.”