OceanGate’s founder and CEO; 19-year-old Suleman Dawood and his father Shahzada Dawood, a British-Pakistani businessman; British entrepreneur Hamish Harding; and French diver and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
In the documentary, Wendy Rush is shown monitoring the mission from the surface when a sharp external noise is heard—later described by a U.S. Coast Guard official as resembling a “door slamming.”
In the footage, she turns to her colleagues and asks, “What was that bang?”
Unbeknownst to her at the time, that sound was the acoustic signature of the submersible imploding deep beneath the ocean surface.
Moments later, a delayed message from the Titan gives the illusion that the crew is still operational, adding to the initial confusion.
