New Footage Captures Chilling Sound of Titan Submarine Implosion

May 24, Kathmandu-Newly released footage from the support ship of OceanGate's Titan submersible has captured the haunting moment of the vessel’s implosion during its ill-fated descent to the Titanic wreck in June 2023, which claimed the lives of all five passengers. The video, obtained by the US Coast Guard and featured in the BBC documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, shows Wendy Rush—wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and a director of the company—reacting to a loud bang while monitoring the dive. Moments later, she received a text from the sub stating it had dropped two weights, mistakenly suggesting the mission was continuing as planned. In reality, the noise she heard was the sound of the sub imploding at around 3,300 meters depth. The text, likely sent just before the failure, arrived after the implosion due to transmission delays. The documentary also reveals that the sub's carbon fibre structure had begun to degrade a year prior to the disaster. The footage and findings are now part of a broader investigation by the USCG Marine Board of Investigation, which has been examining the causes of the sub’s catastrophic failure over the past two years.