The first image of the Titan submarine at the bottom of the ocean has been released – after the tragic implosion that killed everyone on board.
The picture shows the tail cone of the vessel sticking out of the mud at a depth of 3775 m along with other debris.
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A titanic submarine is pictured at the bottom of the ocean
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The OceanGate expedition killed all five people on boardCredit: AP
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Submarine Titan during descent Credit: AFP
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Debris was recovered from the bottom of the ocean after the tragedyCredit: AP
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The video was captured by a remote-controlled vehicle during a search of the ocean floor after last year’s horror dive.
It came as part of a two-week hearing into the tragedy conducted by the US Coast Guard in Charlestown, South Carolina.
The world was spellbound when the submarine disappeared from sonar and failed to resurface after diving 12,500 feet down to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
The hearing is looking into what went wrong that day and the processes the OceanGate operator went through when building the Titan.
The last words of the crew of the auxiliary ship Polar Prince were heard at the hearing saying that “everything is fine here”.
The sound grew murkier as it descended, and the Polar Prince asked if the Titan could see the Titanic on its screen.
Titan was still able to send one message when the submarine was at a depth of 3,341 meters – an hour and a half after it began its journey.
The message read: “dropped two wts” and was sent at 10.47am.
Six seconds after the message was sent, Titan was last pinged at a depth of 3346 m.
There was no communication between the submarine and the mother ship Polar Prince, indicating problems or emergencies on the submarine.
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The Polar Prince began to realize the worst was over when he texted the Titan at 10:49 a.m. saying he had “lost track.”
They continued to send messages to the doomed submarine every two to three minutes, but by 11:15 a.m. they told the master of the Polar Prince that there had been a loss of communication.
US authorities said there was a “catastrophic implosion” that instantly killed all on board.
On board were British explorer Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The Coast Guard was eventually called at 6.27pm after the Polar Prince spent three hours searching.
“Presumed human remains” were recovered from the ocean floor in two recovery operations.
The remains were taken ashore and matched with the profiles of the victims on the submarine.
It was also heard at the hearing that in 2018 the ship was struck by lightning which left a “significant impact on the structure”.
Because of this, he failed the test by a wide margin.
Rapid decompression also occurred during the project’s testing phases years earlier, the hearing heard.
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OceanGate, the company that built the Titan, released a statement expressing its “deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who died.”
A spokesman said: “There are no words to ease the loss suffered by the families affected by this tragic accident.”
The hearing should last two weeks.
How did the Titan tragedy unfold?
Five men dived below the surface of the North Atlantic in a hand-built submarine in the hope of investigating the wreck of the Titan last year.
Four passengers paid £195,000 to board the submarine and the fifth member was the crew.
But what should have been a short journey turned into days of agony when the doomed Titan disappeared without a trace on June 18, 2023.
The daring mission was months in the making – and almost didn’t happen due to harsh weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada.
In a now chilling Facebook post, passenger Hamish Harding wrote: “Due to Newfoundland’s worst winter in 40 years, this mission will likely be the first and only manned mission on Titanic in 2023.
“The weather window just opened and we’ll try diving tomorrow.”
It would be his last post on Facebook.
The next morning, he and four others—led by Stockton Rush—began their 12,5000-foot descent toward the Atlantic floor.
But as it descended into the depths, the ship lost all contact with its parent ship on the surface, the Polar Prince.
It sparked a frantic four-day search for signs of life, and the search spanned the entire world.
There was hope that by some miracle the crew was alive and desperately waiting to be rescued.
But it sparked fears that rescue teams were in a race against time as the submarine only had 96 hours’ worth of oxygen when they set out, which would dwindle quickly.
Then, when pounding sounds were detected underwater, it raised hopes that the victims were trapped and signaled that they needed to be rescued.
The banging sounds turned out to be likely ocean sounds or other search ships, the US Navy determined.
Countries around the world committed their resources to help with the search, and within days the Odysseus Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) was sent down to the site of the Titanic’s ghostly wreckage.
The plan was to hook the ROV to the submarine and raise it 10,000 feet, where it would rendezvous with another ROV before heading to the surface.
But all hopes of a phenomenal rescue were dashed when Odysseus encountered a wreck about 1,600 feet from the Titanic.
The rescue mission then tragically turned into a rescue mission, and devastating news was delivered to the devastated families of those on board.
The US Coast Guard confirmed that the submarine had suffered a “catastrophic implosion”.
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The last message from the crew was sent at 10.47 Credit: Zuma Press
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British billionaire Hamish Harding was among those on the submarine
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Businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman were also killed
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The submarine went 12,500 feet below the surface of the ocean to see the wreck of the Titanic
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