The moment that Oceangate’s Titan submersible was lost has been revealed in footage recorded on the sub’s support ship.
Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic in June 2023, killing all five people on board.
The footage was recently obtained by the USCG and shows Wendy Rush, the wife of Mr Rush, hearing the sound of the implosion while watching on from the sub’s support ship and asking: “What was that bang?”
I hear you.
Search and rescue is complex ethically.
Australia has the largest maritime search and rescue area and our GDP is tiny compared to most other countries. Shit gets really expensive mounting missions to the middle of the Indian ocean like for the mf370 flight and stuff.
I think the basic premise with search and rescue is that the expense is mostly disregarded if there’s any likelihood that someone is still alive.
I suspect that these guys knew that, and didn’t disclose that they’d heard this bang such that resources continued to be provided for the search. Who knows what I would’ve done. As an external party it’s clearly “wrong” but I’ll leave others to judge them for it.