Wrecked hull of the Titan sub after it imploded en route to the Titanic is seen in new footage released by U.S. Coast Guard
New deep-sea footage of the OceanGate Titan submersible wreckage has been released during a U.
New deep-sea footage of the OceanGate Titan submersible wreckage has been released during a U.S. Coast Guard hearing into the disaster.
Officials said the clip shows the aft dome, aft ring, remnants of the hull and carbon fiber debris after it imploded last year as it dived towards the wreck of the Titanic.
All five people on board were killed in the tragedy, including OceanGates founder Stockton Rush, three Brits including adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, as well as Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The wreckage of the doomed vessel was found 330 yards away from the bow of the Titanic, some 3,700 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
The latest clip released by the Coast Guard shows footage recorded by a camera on its own remotely-operated submarine, operating at a depth of 3,774 meters.
New deep-sea footage (pictured) of the OceanGate Titan submersible wreckage has been released during a U.S. Coast Guard hearing into the disaster
Officials said the clip - the second new video released during the two-week hearing - shows the aft dome, aft ring, remnants of the hull and carbon fiber debris after it imploded last year as it dived towards the wreck of the Titanic
Debris from the Titan submersible is seen 3,700 meters under the Atlantic Ocean surface in new footage released by the U.S. Coast Guard
The latest clip released by the Coast Guard shows footage recorded by a camera on its own remotely-operated submarine, operating at a depth of 3,774 meters.
Through the murk of the deep ocean, debris is seen scattered across the seabed, before the larger, mangled hull of the Titan sub appears.
This video led to conclusive evidence of the catastrophic loss of the Titan and the death of all five members aboard, the Coast Guard said.
It is the second new video released during the two-week hearing, with another released earlier in the week showing the vessels tail fin.
Release of the footage came as a mission specialist for OceanGates told the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday that the firm was staffed by competent people who wanted to make dreams come true.
Renata Rojas was the latest person to testify who was connected to the company.
An investigatory panel has listened to two days of testimony that raised questions about the companys operations before the doomed mission.
U.S. Coast Guard releases footage of the Titan submersibles tail cone, released earlier in the week during the hearing into the disaster
Former OceanGates Director of Marine Operations, David Lochridge, center, stands during his testimony, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, for the Titan marine board formal hearing inside the Charleston County Council Chambers, in North Charleston, S.C.
Rojas testimony began with a different tone than some of the earlier witnesses, who described the company as troubled from the top down and focused more on profit than science or safety.
I was learning a lot and working with amazing people, Rojas said.
Some of those people are very hard working individuals that were just trying to make dream come true.
Earlier this month, the Coast Guard opened a public hearing that is part of a high-level investigation into the cause of the implosion.
The public hearing began on Sept. 16 and some of the testimony has focused on problems the company had prior to the fatal 2023 dive. The hearing is expected to run through Friday with more witnesses still to come and resume next week.
During the hearing, former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge said he frequently clashed with Rush and felt the company was committed only to making money, and not to the safety of its customers.
The whole idea behind the company was to make money, Lochridge testified. There was very little in the way of science.
All five people on board the vessel were killed in the tragedy, including OceanGates founder Stockton Rush (top-right), three Brits including adventurer Hamish Harding (top left) and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood (bottom right), as well as Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet (bottom-left)
Lochridge and other witnesses have painted a picture of a company led by people who were impatient to get the unconventionally designed craft into the water.
The deadly accident set off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration.
Coast Guard officials noted at the start of the hearing that the submersible had not been independently reviewed, as is standard practice. That and Titans unusual design subjected it to scrutiny in the undersea exploration community.
OceanGate, based in Washington state, suspended its operations after the implosion. The company has no full-time employees currently, but has been represented by an attorney during the hearing.
During the submersibles final dive on June 18, 2023, the crew lost contact after an exchange of texts about the Titans depth and weight as it descended.
The support ship Polar Prince then sent repeated messages asking if the Titan could still see the ship on its onboard display.
One of the last messages from Titans crew to Polar Prince before the submersible imploded stated, all good here, according to a visual recreation presented earlier in the hearing.
This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions, shows their Titan submersible beginning a descent
When the submersible was reported missing, rescuers rushed ships, planes and other equipment to an area about 435 miles south of St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Four days later, wreckage of the Titan was subsequently found on the ocean floor.
OceanGate said it has been fully cooperating with the Coast Guard and NTSB investigations since they began.
The Titan had been making voyages to the Titanic wreckage site going back to 2021.
