First picture of Titan submarine released after explosion: Revelation in hearing- launched into the sea despite flaws; last message was sent before the blast

The Titan submarine, which was carrying people to see the wreck of the Titanic ship, met with an accident last year. A hearing is being held in a South Carolina court on Monday on how it sank.

According to the New York Times, the hearing began on September 16 and will continue till September 27. On the first day of the hearing, the US Coast Guard shared the first picture of the Titan submarine after the blast.

In this, the rear part of the submarine is seen broken. The sides of the submarine were torn off, while a torn piece of the ship is visible nearby. 

submarine were torn off, while a torn piece of the ship is visible nearby.

Sent a message before the accident, said- everything is fine Information was given about the contact between the Polar Prince ship and the submarine during the hearing. It was told that after one and a half hours, when Titan was at a depth of 3,341 meters, it was able to send a message to the ship.

The last message was sent at 10:47 am. It said that everything was fine here. During this time the submarine was 2 miles below the water. After 6 seconds, Titan was pinged for the last time at a depth of 3,346 meters.

During this time, there was no such conversation between Titan and the ship that would indicate any emergency on the submarine. The ship sent a message to Titan for the first time at 10:49 am that the contact was lost.

After this, messages were sent every two to three minutes but there was no response from the submarine. After this, at 11:15, the owner of the Polar Prince was informed about this.

Former staff said in the hearing – the submarine already had many problems. In the court hearing on Monday, former chief engineer of Oceangate Tony Nisin gave the first testimony. He said that there was a lot of pressure on him to take the submarine to the deep sea and operate it. He said that there were many problems in the submarine. Despite this, it was taken to the deep sea.

Nisin said that Titan was never checked by a third party. Therefore, he did not approve it. Due to this, he was fired from the company in 2019. Nisin said that it had become difficult to work with Rush (CEO of Oceangate Company). He used to do whatever he wanted.

The second witness in court was Bonnie Carl, former CFO of OceanGate Company. Carl said that she left the company in 2018 due to security related problems. 

Titan was kept in extremely cold temperatures Investigators told the court that for some time in the winter before the accident, Titan was kept in extremely cold temperatures outside a facility in Newfoundland. They also said that Titan had faced problems several times before the accident.

According to the records, 70 equipment-related problems were found in Titan in the year 2021 and 48 problems in 2022.

On June 18 last year, the Titan submarine went missing in the Atlantic Ocean. After 4 days of hard work, its debris was found 1600 meters away from the Titanic ship. 5 people died in this. Oceangate CEO Rush was also among them. Apart from this, Pakistani billionaire Prince Dawood and his son also died in the accident.