What Did This Billionaire Text Before He Was Killed In Titan Sub Implosion?
The five men on board were eventually confirmed to have died, with the US Coast Guard stating that the sub suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'. Earlier this week, a two-part documentary about the disaster premiered.
It has been more than eight months since the Titan submersible tragedy in June 2023. On June 16, a group of people from Newfoundland, Canada, set off on a one-of-a-kind excursion to see the Titanic wreck.
However, barely 90 minutes into the dive, OceanGate lost touch with Titan, prompting a search. The five men on board were eventually confirmed to have died, with the US Coast Guard stating that the sub suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'.
Where was the text sent by Billionaire revealed?
Earlier this week, a two-part documentary about the disaster premiered. Channel 5's The Titan Sub Disaster: Minute by Minute featured previously unheard audio recorded by the Canadian Air Force, which heard the 'banging' from the start of their search.
Who was the billionaire?
Hamish Harding was among the people who went missing.
Before boarding the Titan, the millionaire had participated in a number of strange adventures, including a journey to Challenger Deep, the deepest location in the ocean.
Before he was killed in the sub's implosion, he sent a heartbreaking goodbye text to his mate. Colonel Terry Virts, a friend of Harding and a veteran astronaut, appeared on Good Morning Britain while the search for the missing Titan continued.
He claimed his friend had sent him one last text message before embarking on his trek to the Titanic.
What did the text say?
"We don't really talk about risks, it's known," Virts told reporters. "He grasped the hazards, without a doubt.
"The last text I received said, 'Hey, we're going out tomorrow, it looks good, the weather has been bad, so they've been waiting for this.'"
"He went down to the deepest section of the ocean, set a couple world records in the Mariana Trench, and we talked a lot about the hazards and what they'd be able to do. "So he was very excited about it."
According to Dr. Dale Mol¨¦, the former director of undersea medicine and radiation health, the Titan's implosion would have occurred so swiftly that the crew onboard would have had no idea what was occurring.
He told the Mail on Sunday: "It would have been so sudden, that they wouldn't even have known that there was a problem, or what happened to them."It's as if you're only here for a minute before the switch is turned off. "You're alive for one millisecond and then dead the next."
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