‘What was that bang?’: Footage shows moment Titan submersible imploded

The US coast guard on Thursday confirmed the moment the Titan submersible imploded in June 2023. It said the sound in the famous footage related to the incident was the sound of the submarines’ implosion.The cameras on the sub’s mother ship had captured the moment when Wendy Rush, wife of the founder of OceanGate, the company which built the vessel, asked, “What was that bang?”, turning to the people next to her. The sound akin to a “car door slamming” was the sound of Titan’s implosion, the marine board of investigation of the US coast guard said, reported CNN.Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate, Shahzada Dawood, her 19-year-old son Suleman, Hamish Harding, and diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet were all instantly killed in the incident.As Wendy asked the question, the ship was already at a depth of 3,300 metres and in about 90 minutes, it was going to reach the ocean floor to give the passengers a closer look at the Titanic. In a strange turn of events, the crew on the support ship received a message that the sub had dropped weights moments after the ship imploded. This created a false impression that the ship was still operating as it was supposed to.It is plausible that the message was sent before the implosion, but due to buffering or delay, it reached the support ship afterwards.Chris Roman, a professor at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, said to CNN, “If the ‘weights dropped’ message was sent a few seconds before the implosion … the computer may not have shown the message immediately when it was received. The timing is tight, but possible. It really depends on the system they were using.”According to official records, the mother ship lost all contact with the submarine six seconds after the message.A dramatic international search and rescue mission was launched following the tragedy, and in a few days, the remnants of the Titan were found on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. The wreckage was several hundred yards away from the Titanic.