An animated reenactment of the Titan’s voyage before it imploded, killing all five on board, reveals that “all good here” was one of the last things spoken by the crew of an experimental submersible headed for the Titanic’s debris.
The message which was made public during the Coast Guard’s investigation into the circumstances surrounding the unsuccessful operation on Monday, was sent to support vessel Polar Prince on June 18,2023, not long before the submersible exploded, killing all five of its crew members.
The world was unaware that lives had been lost in the tragedy, which captured the attention on both sides of the Atlantic as sailors made a desperate attempt to save each other when the sub lost touch with the surface.
After exchanging texts regarding the submersible’s weight and depth as it descended, the crew lost touch. Then, in a series of messages, the Polar Prince inquired as to whether the Titan’s onboard display still showed the ship. Titan’s last words, sporadically said as it descended, was “all good here.”
During its seven months storage in 2022 and 2023, the Titan was kept outside, the representatives from Coast Guard stated. As is customary, they said, no outside parties have ever examined the hull. The Titan was scrutinized by the undersea exploration community due to this and the submersible’s unconventional design.
Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, the Washington state company that owned Titan, was one of the deceased. The implosion caused the company to halt operations.
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Tony Nissen, the former engineering director of OceanGate, was the first witness in the court. He stated in his testimony on Monday that he felt pressured to launch the company’s activities quickly. In response to the question of whether there was pressure to submerge the Titan, he said, “100%.”
Nissen added that the Titan’s hull may have been weakened when lightning struck it during a test flight in 2018. In 2019, he claimed to have been sacked for refusing to allow the submersible to board the Titanic. In addition, he claimed to have informed Rush that the Titan was “not working like we thought it would.”
Coast Guard is making an investigation on the circumstances surrounding the loss of the submersible, according to Marine Board of the Investigation chair Jason Neubauer.
This said investigation will look into “factors” that led to this catastrophe and have precautionary measures to prevent this from happening in the future as well as examine whether the “acts of misconduct, negligence, or willful violation of the law” contributed to the casualties. The hearings are expected to run for two weeks that will also investigate the search and rescue operations of the Coast Guard.
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