Eerie Audio ofTitanSub Implosion Believed to Be Caught on Recording: Coast Guard Releases New Clip from Investigation

Mar. 15, 2025

A newly released audio recording is believed to have captured the very final momentsof the doomedTitansubmersiblewhen it imploded deep in the Atlantic Ocean in 2023, after much speculation about whether other noises were heard.

The U.S. Coast Guardshared the roughly 20-second clipon Friday, Feb. 7, as part of its ongoing investigation into what happened to theTitan.

The recording includes an ominous whooshing noise — apparently the traces of theTitan’s catastrophic destruction,which killed all five people on boardduring a dive to the wreckage of theTitanicoff the coast of Canada.

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A documentary laterfeatured audio of supposed knockingheard in the area of the sub, though the Coast Guardhas stressedthat any such noises had to be unrelated to theTitansince it imploded during its dive.

The Titan submersible.Xinhua/Shutterstock

Xinhua/Shutterstock

Last year, the Coast Guardconvened a multi-day investigative hearinginto what went wrong.

The five victims included adventurers Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet; father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood; and pilot Stockton Rush, who co-founded OceanGate, the company operating theTitan.

“[Harding] just was loving to explore and push the limits of humans and do conservation,” Aaron Newman, who had been a mission specialist on theTitan, previously told PEOPLE. “So it wasn’t just adventure and exploration, but he did a lot around conservation as well and helping the planet.”

The Coast Guard is expected to submit a final report about the tragedy in the future.

source: people.com