{"id":16346,"date":"2025-02-12T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/eerie-new-audio-released-believed-to-be-the-moment-the-titan-sub-imploded-national\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:26:45","slug":"eerie-new-audio-released-believed-to-be-the-moment-the-titan-sub-imploded-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/eerie-new-audio-released-believed-to-be-the-moment-the-titan-sub-imploded-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Eerie new audio released, believed to be the moment the Titan sub imploded – National"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Chilling new audio, released publicly late last week, captures what researchers believe could be the exact moment the doomed Titan submersible<\/a> imploded, instantly killing all five people inside the tiny vessel.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Feb. 7, the U.S. Coast Guard shared the roughly 20-second clip<\/a> as part of its ongoing investigation into the Titan\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n

The sub was on an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic<\/a> on June 18, 2023, when tragedy struck.<\/p>\n

The audio, recorded by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) device located approximately 1,400 kilometres from where the sub dropped off the radar \u2014 off the south coast of Newfoundland \u2014 captures a loud bang and an ominous whooshing noise, followed by eerie silence. The NOAA is calling the sounds a \u201csuspected acoustic signature<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The actual audio of the Titan Sub implosion. RIP and respect to all 5 victims. #Titansub<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/C6WBTSt5CD<\/a>
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In September of last year, coast guard officials revealed some of the last communications<\/a> sent between the Titan sub and its support staff on board the Polar Prince, a former Canadian Coast Guard vessel that was chartered by OceanGate, the company that created the submersible.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll good here,\u201d read one of the final messages sent by the crew as the sub descended into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The Titan lost contact<\/a> with the Polar Prince more than an hour into its dive. The wreckage was found four days later after a desperate search, discovered only 300 metres from the bow of the Titanic.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s believed the message was written by Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a Titanic expert and deep-sea explorer who was serving as the sub\u2019s co-pilot, alongside OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush<\/a>. Three other people were on board the tourist expedition: Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, both members of a wealthy Pakistani business family, and Hamish Harding, a British businessman and adventurer.<\/p>\n

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The submersible had been making trips to trips to the Titanic wreckage since 2021, but the 2023 disaster sparked questions about its safety<\/a> and Rush\u2019s business practices.<\/p>\n

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The investigation has also found that the Titan had imperfections on its carbon fibre hull<\/a>, dating back to the manufacturing process.<\/p>\n

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Don Kramer, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board, told the hearing last September that there were wrinkles, porosity and voids in the carbon fibre used for the pressure hull of the submersible and that the vessel behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives a year before it imploded.<\/p>\n

Hull pieces recovered from the sea floor after the June 2023 tragedy showed substantial delamination of the layers of carbon fibre, which were bonded to create the hull of the experimental submersible, Kramer said.<\/p>\n