Oceangate: Titan sub witness tells of fear and false hope

Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

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Rory Golden was on the Oceangate expedition when contact with the sub and its five passengers was lost on a dive to the Titanic in June 2023.

“We had this image in our heads of them being down there, running out of oxygen in the freezing cold, getting terribly frightened and scared,” he said.

But after learning the sub had imploded just hours into the dive, he said it was a comfort to know those onboard hadn’t suffered.

Mr Golden was on the Polar Prince support ship to give presentations about the Titanic when the submersible went missing.

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