Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster revisits the Titan submersible case two years later.
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A new documentary on the ill-fated Titan submersible has unveiled surprising personal items that withstood the deadly implosion.
On June 18, 2023, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush embarked on a deep-sea expedition aboard the Titan—a submersible he helped design—accompanied by five paying passengers eager to explore the Titanic wreck site in the Atlantic Ocean.
Tragically, the group never completed the journey, as the submersible experienced a “catastrophic implosion” just 90 minutes after launch.
Now, nearly two years later, the BBC has released a documentary titled Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, shedding light on the events leading up to the tragedy and the US Coast Guard’s investigation that followed.
The film includes powerful moments, such as Stockton’s wife, Wendy Rush, unknowingly hearing the moment the sub imploded, the final communication with the crew, and safety concerns previously raised by OceanGate contractor Antonella Wilby.
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One scene in the documentary features a US Coast Guard member describing how investigators examined items recovered from the wreckage — including fragments of clothing, human remains, and personal belongings.
Among the surprising items recovered was an ‘intact’ pen that belonged to Stockton Rush, discovered inside what appeared to be the 61-year-old’s sleeve.
We were all just kind of getting all-hands-in and separating what needed to be considered as human remains and what was just other wreckage pieces,
she explained
As we were pulling it apart that is how we realised it was Mr. Rush’s clothing.
In addition to the pen, investigators also found several OceanGate business cards and Titanic stickers that had remarkably withstood the implosion.
It was a piece of his sleeve that survived, not the whole suit, just that. Inside of the sleeve of it was the ink pen, business cards and stickers for the Titanic and there was nothing else but that.
She continued
Each one of those pieces, even the pen, was still intact. It hadn’t been broken. All of this debris, all of these things shattered but his pen was still intact.
In another part of the documentary, Antonella Wilby shared her reaction upon learning about reports of the sub ‘cracking’ and sounding like ‘the ship breaking apart’ during a test dive to the Titanic wreck — a noise that Rush claimed “almost every” deep-diving sub would make at some point.
My initial reaction was ‘hold on’, if you heard your car make that noise you’d probably go ‘wait a second we need to see what happened here’,
she said of the revelation.
Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster is now streaming on BBC iPlayer.
Source: ladbible