US Coast Guard releases chilling audio of moment doomed Titan submersible imploded

New audio has captured the Titan sub’s final moments before its catastrophic implosion, killing all five onboard. Listen to the chilling recording.

A chilling new recording has captured the exact moment the Titan submersible imploded, instantly killing all five aboard.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the never-before-heard audio clip, which captures staticky white noise followed by a loud boom and reverb — and then the static again. It then goes silent for its remaining few seconds.

Officials said the boom is the sound of the sub imploding before reaching the Titanic wreck site on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023.

The eerie 20-second recording of the disaster was picked up by a moored passive acoustic recorder about 1448 kilometres away from where the OceanGate vessel buckled under the water pressure.

An image showing the Titan submersible beginning a descent. Picture: OceanGate Expeditions.

The US Coast Guard said the clip reveals “the suspected acoustic signature of the Titan submersible implosion.”

OceanGate announced an end of deep-sea expeditions to the wreckage of the Titanic after a catastrophic implosion killed Mr Rush along with British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.

The Titan’s mothership had lost communication with the small submersible less than two hours into the dive — sparking a frantic, four-day search for the missing vessel before debris from the wreck was discovered on the ocean floor.

The implosion killed Mr Rush along with British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.

Ten days after the Titan sub had vanished, the Coast Guard announced that “presumed human remains” had been located in the wreckage of the sub.

Mr Rush, who was piloting the submersible, had been the subject of scrutiny for allegedly ignoring major safety concerns regarding his vessel and its tourist voyages to the Titanic.

A Coast Guard investigation into the deadly disaster found that the sub had several structural flaws and safety hazards and had not been independently reviewed — as is standard practice — before setting off for the depths of the ocean.

Originally published as US Coast Guard releases chilling audio of moment doomed Titan submersible imploded