‘All good here’ – these are the last words heard from the crew of the Titan submersible that imploded killing all five people on board.
A hearing about the deaths of those on the doomed submersible has opened today in Charleston, South Carolina, and is expected to last two weeks.
British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board in June 2023, alongside French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush.
It was on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage around 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, when it lost contact with the tour operator.
At the hearing, the US coast guard presented a visual re-creation of the journey of the Titan before it imploded.
According to this presentation, the crew communicated with support staff aboard the Polar Prince by text messages.
But they lost contact after repeated inquiries from the Polar Prince about the submersible’s depth and weight as it descended.
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