{"id":69761,"date":"2024-06-10T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/frightening-log-from-titan-submersibles-fatal-dive-declared-a-fake\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:46:06","slug":"frightening-log-from-titan-submersibles-fatal-dive-declared-a-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/frightening-log-from-titan-submersibles-fatal-dive-declared-a-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightening Log From Titan Submersible\u2019s Fatal Dive Declared a Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/10\/science\/10titan-sub\/10titan-sub-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Frightening Log From Titan Submersible\u2019s Fatal Dive Declared a Fake\" title=\"Frightening Log From Titan Submersible\u2019s Fatal Dive Declared a Fake\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, a purported transcript of communications between the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/07\/14\/us\/titan-submersible-implode-design.html\" title=\"\">Titan submersible<\/a> and its mother ship circulated widely on the internet. Viewed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/fact-check-titan-subs-text-232200869.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">millions of times<\/a>, the so-called log suggested that a series of alarms had turned <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/02\/us\/titan-submersible-passengers.html\" title=\"\">a dive<\/a> to the resting place of the Titanic into a heart-pounding crisis in which the five voyagers struggled in vain to return to the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the head of the U.S. federal government team investigating the disaster said that the entire transcript is a fiction. After nearly a year of investigation, his group has found no signs that the five voyagers aboard the Titan had any warning of the catastrophic implosion that was to take their lives. Two miles down, where seawater exerts vast pressures, an implosion would have made the violent collapse of the vehicle\u2019s hull instantaneous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m confident it\u2019s a false transcript,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2017\/Feb\/02\/2001693825\/-1\/-1\/0\/CAPT%20NEUBAUER%20BIO-02FEB17-MEDIA%20KIT.PDF\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Capt. Jason D. Neubauer<\/a>, who retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and serves as chairman of the Marine Board of Investigation, the agency\u2019s highest level of inquiry. \u201cIt was made up.\u201d Its authorship is not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the log\u2019s air of authenticity, the federal team saw through the pretense for a variety of reasons. Significantly, Mr. Neubauer\u2019s team gained access to the records of the actual communications between the submersible and its mother ship, which remain an undisclosed part of the federal investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said that his team, aided by investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, had \u201cfound no evidence\u201d that Titan\u2019s voyagers had any awareness of the imminent implosion or their fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His hope, Mr. Neubauer added, is that the truth will console relatives concerned that the five men inside the Titan may have suffered in their last moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The investigator\u2019s disclosures are the first to emerge from a comprehensive inquiry begun last summer into the disaster and its causes. While there were expectations that the investigation would be concluded before the one-year anniversary of the Titan\u2019s destruction, a mix of technical and jurisdictional complexities mean that a final report could take years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/02\/us\/titan-submersible-passengers.html\" title=\"\">The five men<\/a> aboard the submersible were Shahzada Dawood, 48, a British Pakistani businessman; his son, Suleman, 19; Hamish Harding, 58, a British airline executive; <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/11\/science\/paul-henri-nargeolet-titanic-titan-submersible.html\" title=\"\">Paul-Henri Nargeolet<\/a>, 77, a French Titanic authority; and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/23\/us\/stockton-rush-oceangate-titanic-sub.html\" title=\"\">Stockton Rush<\/a>, 61, a founder and chief executive of OceanGate, the American firm that built the submersible and ran its tourist dives. He was also the Titan\u2019s pilot that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, starting in 2018, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/20\/us\/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Rush brushed aside warnings<\/a> that the sub\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/07\/14\/us\/titan-submersible-implode-design.html\" title=\"\">maverick design<\/a> was destined to fail. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/read-oceangate-waiver-titan-sub-passengers-lists-numerous-death-risks-2023-7\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">An OceanGate waiver<\/a> for would-be passengers posted by the website Business Insider said that the \u201cexperimental\u201d craft had plunged beneath the waves some 90 times and succeeded in reaching the depth of the Titanic on 13 dives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/19\/world\/canada\/submersible-titanic-missing-search.html\" title=\"\">The Titan calamity began<\/a> on June 18, 2023, when the craft was reported missing in the North Atlantic. Five days later, on June 22, the Coast Guard, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/06\/22\/us\/titanic-missing-submarine#the-coast-guard-says-it-found-five-major-pieces-of-debris-on-the-ocean-floor\" title=\"\">citing the discovery<\/a> of debris from the Titan <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/10\/science\/titan-submersible-map-titanic.html\" title=\"\">near the Titanic\u2019s resting place<\/a>, announced that the submersible had suffered a \u201ccatastrophic implosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the five tense days, a fleet of international vessels searched for the lost craft, raising hopes that the Titan voyagers were somehow alive but trapped <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/22\/podcasts\/the-daily\/lost-submersible.html\" title=\"\">in an increasingly grim crisis two miles down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">News reports asked <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/21\/us\/submersible-passengers-oxygen.html\" title=\"\">how much oxyge<\/a>n might be left in the submersible\u2019s life-support system. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/21\/us\/underwater-noise-search-submersible.html\" title=\"\">Underwater banging noises<\/a> were also detected. Some analysts suggested that survivors in the lost submersible were desperately trying to signal their location in hopes of rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Coast Guard\u2019s implosion announcement brought the survival narrative to an end. Public speculation in the following weeks turned to what might have gone wrong during Titan\u2019s last minutes on June 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The transcript <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/fact-check-titan-subs-text-232200869.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">apparently began circulating<\/a> on the internet in late June and offered a minute-by-minute report rich in technical details. It recounted specialized Titan acronyms, the first name of a mother ship expert and credible depictions of the submersible\u2019s descent. In short, the detailed report had an air of authenticity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSomebody did it well enough to make it look plausible,\u201d Mr. Neubauer said. The log made the adventurers \u201clook like they were panicking,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The maker of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Dj8IJbP41c\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a YouTube video that has nearly seven million views<\/a> said in his line-by-line commentary on the fake log: \u201cIt\u2019s just so scary to know that these guys spent 20 minutes in fear of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The faux crisis centered on what the transcript called the R.T.M. \u2014 short for Real Time Hull Health Monitoring system. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230619175419\/https:\/oceangate.com\/our-subs\/titan-submersible.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">OceanGate had hailed the proprietary system<\/a> as \u201can unparalleled safety feature that assesses the integrity of the hull throughout every dive.\u201d The network of sensors could \u2014 in theory \u2014 warn that the hull was failing and give the pilot enough time to escape the crushing pressures of the deep. Doubters of the system called it fake reassurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bogus transcript told of Titan informing its mother ship of a series of hull alarms, as well as reports of crackling noises. Titan\u2019s last purported message about the hull sensors read: \u201cRTM alert active all red.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fake transcript ended on a troubling note of silence, as the mother ship sent seven terse messages inquiring about the submersible\u2019s fate but received no replies. \u201cPlease respond if you\u2019re able,\u201d the purported last message read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/10\/29\/science\/scientist-work-alfred-mclaren-explorer-arctic-depths-plans-another-trip-north.html\" title=\"\">Alfred S. McLaren<\/a>, a retired Navy submariner, submersible pilot and president emeritus of the Explorers Club, said that he had found the transcript credible. \u201cIt makes sense,\u201d he said. \u201cIt seems on the money\u201d in terms of how Titan and its mother ship would have communicated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Told in an subsequent interview of the Coast Guard refutation, Dr. McLaren speculated on the fraud\u2019s motive. \u201cIt may have been done to embarrass OceanGate,\u201d he said. \u201cIt certainly was guaranteed to stir up the relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the interview, Mr. Neubauer, the head of the federal inquiry, told not only of his team\u2019s dismissal of the transcript\u2019s authenticity but how the investigation was one of the most complex he had ever encountered over the decades. Complicating factors, he said, included the lack of witnesses to the disaster, a wealth of novel vessel technologies, the need to test exotic materials and to extract data from electronic devices, and the disaster&#8217;s site off Canada in international waters, creating jurisdictional issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The dive itself illustrates the tangles. OceanGate was based in Everett, Wash., but its mother ship, the Polar Prince, was from Canada, and the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/02\/us\/titan-submersible-passengers.html\" title=\"\">five people<\/a> aboard the submersible were citizens of England, Pakistan, France and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a result, the Coast Guard investigation has many partners \u2014 not just the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board but also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uscg.mil\/Press-Releases\/Article\/3438300\/us-coast-guard-convenes-a-marine-board-of-investigation-into-loss-of-titan-subm\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">similar bodies<\/a> in Canada, France and the United Kingdom. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uscg.mil\/Press-Releases\/Article\/3551133\/us-coast-guard-recovers-remaining-evidence-from-titan-submersible\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The agency relies<\/a> on the U.S. Navy to recover debris from the accident site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The multitude of angles and investigators, Mr. Neubauer said, has made some aspects of the inquiry more difficult than expected and pushed back its completion date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The inquiry began officially on June 23, the day after the implosion announcement, and its <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2023\/Jun\/28\/2003250010\/-1\/-1\/0\/TITAN%20MBI%20CONVENING%20ORDER%20(23JUN2023).PDF\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">convening notice<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2023\/Jun\/28\/2003250010\/-1\/-1\/0\/TITAN%20MBI%20CONVENING%20ORDER%20(23JUN2023).PDF\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">called for a finished report<\/a> in a year. However, Mr. Neubauer said, a major report typically takes two or three years to complete. He suggested that the Titan inquiry would probably follow the same pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the time and effort, Mr. Neubauer said, he valued such investigations because the findings regularly get turned into new laws, rules and regulations that improve vessel safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Neubauer added that the friends and families of Titan\u2019s victims might take comfort in knowing that such disasters have silver linings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make it any less painful,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it can help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/10\/science\/titan-submersible-transcript-investigation.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a purported transcript of communications between the Titan submersible and its mother ship circulated widely on the internet. Viewed millions of times, the so-called log suggested that a series of alarms had turned a dive to the resting place of the Titanic into a heart-pounding crisis in which the five voyagers struggled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/10\/science\/10titan-sub\/10titan-sub-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22354,2482,778,8387,65006,42004,65007,37410],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69763,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions\/69763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}