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THE US COASTGUARD HAS RELEASED NEVER SEEN BEFORE FOOTAGE OF WENDY RUSH SEEMINGLY HEARING HER HUSBAND DIE ON BOARD THE OCEANGATE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE, WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF FIVE PEOPLE
12:00, 31 May 2025Updated 12:03, 31 May 2025 The US Coastguard has released never seen before footage of what appears to be the moment the Oceangate CEO's wife heard the Titan
submersible implode. Wendy Rush can be seen asking "What was that bang?" not realising it could be the sound of her husband, Stockton Rush's death. She was on board the
sub's support ship, Polar Prince when tragedy struck on June 18, 2023. Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.
Titan's support ship was with the sub while it was diving in the Atlantic Ocean. The video shows Mrs Rush, who was a director of Oceangate with her husband, sitting in front of a
computer that was used to send and receive text messages from Titan. When the sub reaches a depth of about 3,300m, a noise that sounds like a door slamming is heard. Mrs Rush is seen to
pause then look up and ask other Oceangate crew members what the noise was. Within moments she then receives a text message from the sub saying it had dropped two weights, which seems to
have led her to mistakenly think the dive was proceeding as expected. Article continues below The USCG says the noise was in fact the sound of Titan imploding. However, the text message,
which must have been sent just before the sub failed, took longer to reach the ship than the sound of the implosion. After the sound is heard, a man sitting next to Wendy avoids making eye
contact as another leaves the room suggesting they've realised something bad has happened. Stockton Rush was on board the Titan sub along with British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran
French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman. The video from the chartroom described the noise as an
"unidentified sound" which was observed by the Titan communications team. It's the latest piece of evidence to be added to the public docket on May 22 and forms part of US
Coast Guard's (USCG) investigation for a documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster. The video has been presented as evidence to the USCG Marine Board of Investigation, which has
spent the last two years looking into the sub's catastrophic failure. The sound can be heard 24 seconds into the clip. It has since been correlated with the loss of communications and
tracking. Investigators believe the sound is of the Titan’s implosion, according to the Coastguard. Titan lost all communication with its support vessel on Sunday, June 18, 400 miles off the
coast of Newfoundland in Canada during a trip to the wreck of the Titanic – which is 12,500 feet beneath the surface. A few days later all five occupants were confirmed to have died on the
Titan. The passengers had paid Oceangate to see the ship, which lies 3,800m down. After the haunting video - which has been viewed almost one million times - was shared on YouTube, one
person commented: "I think they all knew instantly. "She looked at the one guy with a smile looking for reassurance as he avoids her eyes, and the other walks out. No one wanted to
say it." Another added: "So, Wendy Rush actually HEARD the moment of her husband’s needless death; wow." A third said: "She has that very nervous smile ppl (people) get
and then you can almost see her mentally immediately latch on to the text message announcement to dispel what was in the back of her mind... this also likely means during the whole search
effort she knew but did not want to admit it." While one wrote: "The way those two men looked at each other in shock, and then the other guy walked right out the door…they knew it
was over. RIP." Last week, the US coastguard revealed it has recovered one surviving item from the wreckage of the Titan submersible after the OceanGate sub "popped like a
balloon" during its fatful voyage. The investigation team pulled the lid back on the pain-staking recovery process and revealed the sole survivor of the OceanGate tragedy was a singular
black pen belonging to the deceased OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. Article continues below Alongside the intact pen investigators were able to locate various other objects from the wreckage
site including business cards, Titanic-themed stickers, the remnants of clothing remnants and human remains. These artefacts alongside debris and wreckage from the incident have been
catalogued by the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation. The documentary also reveals the carbon fibre used to build the submersible started to break apart a year before the fatal
dive.