A CHILLING new audio clip has revealed the final moments of the doomed Titan submarine when it suffered a deadly implosion.
The recording – captured by an oceanic device some 900 miles from the scene of tragedy – revealed an eerie noise believed to be the sound of the vessel imploding.
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The US Coast Guard shared the newly released 20-second clip as part of their ongoing investigation into the implosion which killed all five people onboard.
This includes British explorer Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush and French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
All of them are believed to have died instantly when the ill-fated vessel imploded during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Canada.
The Coast Guard said that the audio captured the “suspected acoustic signature” of the implosion on June 18, 2023.
Titan – which was steered with a gaming controller – vanished from radars on June 18, 2023, and failed to resurface from the £195,000-a-head voyage to the Titanic wreckage 12,500ft down.
Hopes of a miracle faded by the hour as desperate rescue crews worked around the clock to find any signs of life.
Five days after the sub was supposed to return, debris was found on the ocean floor dispersed over an area of around 322,917 square feet – the equivalent of almost six football fields.
“Presumed human remains” were recovered from the ocean floor in two recovery operations.
The remains were taken ashore and were matched with the profiles of the victims on board the submersible.
Chilling footage taken by a remotely operated vehicle during a search of the ocean floor showed the wreckage of the doomed Titan sub lying on the ocean floor.
It was shared in September last year by the US Coast Guard as part of a two-week hearing into the tragedy.
The audio recording is the latest piece of evidence in the ongoing investigation that aims to find more answers about the implosion.
Heartbreaking details have already come to light – including the final words of the Titan passengers.
They told support ship Polar Prince “all good here” before audio became more spotty as it descended.
Crew on the Polar Prince then asked if the Titan could see the Titanic on its display.
Titan passengers were still able to send one message when the submersible was 3,341m deep – an hour-and-a-half after it began its journey.
The message read: “dropped two wts” and was sent at 10.47am.
Six seconds after the message was sent the Titan was pinged for the final time at a depth of 3,346m.
There was no communication between it and the Polar Prince mother ship that indicated any trouble or emergency on board the sub.
The Polar Prince crew realised there was a major issue when it sent a message to the Titan at 10.49am saying it had “lost tracking”.
They continued to message the doomed sub every two to three minutes, but by 11.15am they told the Polar Prince’s master there had been a loss of communication.
During a hearing, an ex-OceanGate chief admitted the doomed Titan sub crashed during a malfunction just days before it set off on its fatal dive.
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