All five members of the submersible’s crew died in the accident.
A chilling transcript detailing the final moments of the crew of the submersible Titan during their expedition to the Titanic has been exposed as a hoax, according to The New York Times. Released last year, the diary described a dramatic fight for survival, raising doubts about its authenticity. After a year-long investigation, authorities confirmed that the transcript was completely fabricated. The crew was not warned of the impending disaster.
According to The NYT, the US federal government team investigating the disaster said the entire transcript is fiction. After nearly a year of investigation, the group found no signs that the five travelers aboard the Titan had any warning of the catastrophic implosion that would take their lives. Three kilometers below, where the seawater exerts great pressure, an implosion would have caused the violent collapse of the vehicle’s hull to be instantaneous.
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“I’m confident it’s a fake transcript,” said Capt. Jason D Neubauer, who retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and serves as chairman of the Navy Board of Investigation, the agency’s highest level of investigation. “Was invented.” Its authorship is not known.
For a number of reasons, the federal team saw through the hoax, even though the paper had an air of authenticity. Namely, recordings of actual contacts between the submersible and its mothership were made available to Mr. Neubauer’s team; these communications are still a classified component of the federal investigation.
He said his team, assisted by investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, “found no evidence” that Titan’s travelers had any knowledge of the impending implosion or their fate.
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