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Titanic submarine: What happened?
A popular Youtuber has revealed he was invited on the OceanGate Titanic expedition tour that imploded last week, killing all five of its passengers.
James Donaldson, most known as MrBeast on Youtube for his videos giving out charity, said that he had declined the invitation.
“I was invited earlier this month to ride the [T]itanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” Mr Donaldson tweeted.
Meanwhile, authorities from the US and Canada said they will investigate the cause of the catastrophic implosion. The US Coast Guard, assisted by the US National Transportation Safety Board, as well as the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will launch investigations.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they too would be looking into whether a formal criminal investigation is warranted.
The Coast Guard announced debris from the sub was located approximately 12,500 feet (3,810 metres) underwater and 1,600 feet away from the Titanic wreckage. OceanGate Expeditions’ submersible was on its way to the wreckage when it lost communication with its surface ship and eventually imploded on Sunday, 18 June.
For four days an international search and rescue mission was conducted in the hopes of finding the five people on the submersible.
Aboard the watercraft were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman Dawood.
US Coast Guard debunks pictures ‘showing Titan’s wreck'
Photographs circulating online, which internet users claimed showed the remains of OceanGate’s Titan submersible, have been debunked.
The US Coast Guard confirmed to the Associated Press reported that there are no public images of the wreckage so far.
Two of the pictures that allegedly showed the Titan’s debris are actually from the remains of the Titanic itself and were taken in 2004.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 19:59
Titanic to return to Netflix next month
Netflix to stream Titanic from 1 July, just days after the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people.
The five on board were on a mission to visit the ruins of the Titanic ship which sank in 1912, killing 1500 people.
However, Netflix is also facing criticism on social media after the streaming giant released a trailer for its new freediving documentary, The Deepest Breath.
Produced by A24, The Deepest Breath tells the story of Alessia Zecchini, the current holder of the freediving world record.
The trailer was shared on Tuesday (20 June) as rescue efforts were well underway to find the five missing passengers onboard the Titan, which went missing on an expedition to see the Titanic shipwreck.
On Twitter, many Netflix subscribers questioned the timing of the deep-sea-related release given the tragedy.
“The timing of this,” one person commented.
“Probably not the best timing for this,” another agreed.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 19:17
OceanGate closes headquarter
The company that operated the Titan closed its headquarters in Everett, Washington State, following the vessel’s implosion, which killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and British billionaire Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman Dawood.
The leasing agent said in a statement to The Seattle Times that the company would be closing indefinitely.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 18:40
US and Canada authorities open probe into Titan’s implosion
Authorities from the U.S. and Canada began the process of investigating the cause of the fatal Titan submersible implosion even as they grappled with questions of who was responsible for determining how the tragedy unfolded.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that the U.S. Coast Guard has declared the loss of the Titan submersible to be a “major marine casualty” and the Coast Guard will lead the investigation. NTSB spokesperson Peter Knudson said that information was provided to the agency’s senior management by Coast Guard officials, and the NTSB has joined the investigation.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 18:22
WATCH: Ships return to harbour as Titan submersible recovery operations begin to wind down
Ships return to harbour as Titan submersible recovery operations begin to wind down
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 17:37
Titanic’s director ‘struck by similarity of Titan’s disaster’s to sinking of 1912 vessel
In an interview with ABC News, the director of the 1997 blockbuster criticised the Titan’s lack of certifications, noting that the tragedy was completely avoidable.
“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet, he steamed up full speed into an ice field on a moonless night, and many people died as a result,” James Cameron said.
“And for a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing, it’s really quite surreal.”
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 16:41
Data from Titan’s mother ship to be analysed
Canadian officials have revealed that audio and commands between the Titan and its mother ship Polar Prince will be subject to an investigation.
The chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Kathy Fox, said that the crew was interviewed to “collect information from the vessel’s voyage data recorder and other vessel systems that contain useful information,” according to CNN.
Ms Fox noted that the goal was to determine what went wrong after the Titan lost contact with its mother ship just an hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic.
After ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) found debris found 1,600 feet from the wreck of the Titanic, the US Coast Guard determined that all five passengers aboard the submersible were killed after the vessel imploded.
The Polar Prince returned to St John’s on Saturday with its flags at half-mast.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 15:57
American Youtuber reveals he was asked to go on OceanGate tour before tragedy
James Donaldson, most known as Mr Beast on Youtube, revealed on Sunday that he was asked to join the Titan crew.
“I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” Mr Donaldson, who is famous on the platform for his videos giving out charity, tweeted.
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 15:35
OceanGate sub’ carbon fiber design 'was not proven as reliable’
The submarine expedition to the Titanic that claimed five lives over the weekend relied on a design featuring key components made out of carbon fiber, which experts say hasn’t been proven as a reliable material for deep sea use.
“Innovation is a wonderful thing,” Bart Kemper, a mechanical engineer from the Marine Technology Society, told NBC News. “But everything that is new and not tried introduces uncertainty, and uncertainty is risk.”
The wreck of the Titanic is at about 13,000 feet under the ocean, multiple times deeper than where US Navy subs typically operate. At that depth, pressure is nearly 400 times that of the ocean’s surface.
“It’s a design that’s not been used in this way at this depth,” Mr Kemper added. “All it has to do is fail in one spot and game over.”
Andrea Blanco25 June 2023 15:04
Netflix to stream Titanic
Netflix to stream Titanic from 1 July, just days after the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people.
The five on board were on a mission to visit the ruins of the Titanic ship which sank in 1912, killing 1500 people.
However, Netflix is also facing criticism on social media after the streaming giant released a trailer for its new freediving documentary, The Deepest Breath.
Produced by A24, The Deepest Breath tells the story of Alessia Zecchini, the current holder of the freediving world record.
The trailer was shared on Tuesday (20 June) as rescue efforts were well underway to find the five missing passengers onboard the Titan, which went missing on an expedition to see the Titanic shipwreck.
On Twitter, many Netflix subscribers questioned the timing of the deep-sea-related release given the tragedy.
“The timing of this,” one person commented.
“Probably not the best timing for this,” another agreed.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain25 June 2023 15:03