(NewsNation) — A video released by the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday captures the moment when the team tracking the Titan submersible heard a noise that is believed to be the vessel imploding.
The tracking team was aboard a support vessel for the submersible on June 18, 2023, when five people aboard the submersible were killed when the vessel was making its way to the wreckage of the Titanic.
In the video, two members of the tracking team, Wendy Rush and Gary Foss, can be seen monitoring the submersible’s data and communications from the Polar Prince. Just about 24 seconds into the video, Rush tells Foss that the vessel should be at 500 meters before hearing a noise that stops her in mid-sentence.
She then can be heard asking Foss what “that bang” was. Rush is the wife of OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush, who was among the five people killed in the implosion.
Other victims included Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood.
The Coast Guard has determined that the noise was heard at the moment when the Titan lost contact. Officials believe the noise was the sound of the implosion reaching the surface of the ocean.
The video release on Thursday comes three months after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an audio recording of what officials from that agency believe is the sound of the implosion.
NOAA says the sound comes from a moored passive acoustic recorder approximately 900 miles from the site of the implosion. In the 23-second recording, the sound of static can be heard, followed by a booming noise, then more static.
Owned by OceanGate, the Titan lost contact with its support vessel an hour and 45 minutes into the dive at 12,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Officials searched for the submersible for four days, until evidence of an implosion was found on the ocean floor.
After the implosion, Washington state-based OceanGate suspended its operations. A Wired investigation revealed Rush overstated the project’s timeline and lied about issues with the vessel’s hull.
Former NewsNation digital content producer Cassie Buchman contributed to this story