The company that lost its CEO and four other passengers on a Titanic-bound submersible last month is suspending commercial operations.
25.06.2023 - 22:05 / perezhilton.com
Since the news of the Titan tragedy, we’ve heard several stories about people who were invited at one point to make the dangerous voyage to see the Titanic wreckage – whether it be on the doomed vessel or not – but pulled out at the last minute. And now, another person who almost went on a submersible trip to the shipwreck has come forward: YouTube star MrBeast.
The 25-year-old content creator, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, revealed on Twitter Sunday that he was allegedly asked to go down to see the Titanic earlier this month. However, he ended up declining the offer. MrBeast said in a tweet:
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The proof? He also shared a partial screenshot of a text exchange that he seemingly had with someone else that read:
Whoa. You can check it out (below):
It’s unclear whether he was invited on the doomed Titan expedition but MrBeast’s text noted the journey would have been “late this month” – which possibly could’ve been around the time of the submersible’s fatal trip. No matter the timing, though, the influencer must be feeling thankful he turned down the voyage right now.
As you no doubt know by now, the Titan submersible went missing and “lost all communication” with its surface vessel last week during a trip to the Titanic with five passengers aboard. Following a four-day search, it was confirmed that the sub suffered a catastrophic implosion during the dive. This resulted in the tragic deaths of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The company said in a statement to People on Thursday about the situation:
We continue to keep the victims’ families in our thoughts
The company that lost its CEO and four other passengers on a Titanic-bound submersible last month is suspending commercial operations.
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Expedition Unknown on Discovery Plus, tweeted on Wednesday (June 21) that he turned down the opportunity to film Titanic because the submersible “did not perform well” during a test dive.Gates said that he was given the chance to join OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush on a test dive, which took place in July 2021.“To those asking, #Titan did not perform well on my dive. Ultimately, I walked away from a huge opportunity to film Titanic due to my safety concerns w/ the @OceanGate platform.
Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the Titanic. After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself. “People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”