Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.
A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News about the fear and false hope felt by those on its support ship.
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. But it's now known that those onboard most likely died instantly after Titan suffered a catastrophic failure as it neared the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic.
”PH and I had discussed the submersible in the past and I had actually made a dive in it myself the year before,” he said.
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