“What was this explosion?” This Friday, May 23, the BBC transmits new exclusive images related to the investigations carried out after the implosion of the titan, an insubmersible destroyed in June 2023 near the shipwreck of the Titanic.
An accident in which five people lost their lives, including the CEO of Stockton Rush Company, while his wife Wendy was on a boat on the surface to observe the descent. In the video, we see Wendy listen to the sound of implosion, without knowing what it was. We see her ask: “What was this explosion?”
“It looks like the noise of a door that slaps”, then we listen to in the video obtained by the BBC, a document that serves as proof in the investigation carried out for two years by the North American Navy to establish the circumstances of the drama.
The CEO’s wife did not answer her question after this deaf noise. But it could have reassured when receiving a message from the aircraft that indicates that it had fallen from the ballast, letting it think that the descent was correctly, while the passengers had been killed a few moments before.
Various failures
Another discovery revealed during the BBC documentary: the carbon fiber used to build the defective submersible had already begun to break a year before the fateful date. It is not the only known damage, far from him.
According to the former Oceangate scientific director, a “dysfunction” had taken place a few days before the departure of the apparatus of just 6 meters. Other negligence controversies arose very quickly after the accident, especially in the ox eye that could not have technically resistant to such depths.
The titan crew consisted, in addition to Stockton Rush, by Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, a great specialist in the Titanic of the British businessman Hamish Harding, 58 years of the philanthropist of the entrepreneurs and Pakistani Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19.
The family of “Mr. Titanic” French announced on August 6, 2024 to initiate legal procedures for negligence against the operator.
Source: BFM TV
