Two days of reporting and testifying by experts during a U.S. Coast Guard inquiry challenge the idea that the submersible’s passengers knew they were facing death.

David Lochridge, the former operations director for OceanGate, testified to US Coast Guard investigators that he had warned of a potential safety probe, but was ignored.

The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation has released footage showing the wreckage of the Titan submersible as part of the public hearing into the vessel's implosion in June 2023.

First video of OceanGate submersible wreckage after implosion revealed - Footage of the Titan submersible wreckage that provided ‘conclusive evidence of the catastrophic loss’ of all five passengers o

Image shows broken tail cone on floor of Atlantic, as US hearing into deaths of five people onboard OceanGate vessel gets under way

The US Coast Guard has revealed the first image of the Titan submersible wreckage after its June 2023 implosion, during a public hearing into the deaths of five people onboard. The hearing aims to uncover facts about the accident and investigate potential misconduct or negligence by mariners credentialed to navigate by the US.

The CEO who was piloting the Titan submersible when it imploded underwater last year, killing him and his four passengers, once crashed another submersible into a shipwreck and then angrily threw the controls when a tearful passenger begged him to let another pilot take over,