OceanGate CEOs wifes reaction to fatal Titan sub implosion revealed in new audio

The wife of OceanGate’s doomed CEO unknowingly heard and reacted to the moment her husband’s Titan submersible fatally imploded while monitoring the private Titanic exploration on a separate ship, newly released audio reveals.Stockton Rush’s wife and Director of OceanGate, Wendy Rush, was listening to audio from the submersible’s support ship along with other crew members when a “distinguishable” popping noise played over their sound system.“What’s that bang,” Wendy Rush asked, according to US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation footage viewed by the BBC.Rush and the rest of the staff aboard the support ship, Polar Prince, were tracking the vessel’s descent to the resting place of the infamous shipwreck when the tragic implosion occurred 90 minutes into the voyage at approximately 11,000 feet below the surface in the North Atlantic Ocean.The five passengers inside – including Stockton Rush, billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58 – were killed instantly.“You’ll hear a noise that’s external to the room and you’ll see their reaction to it,” one Coast Guard officer explained, comparing the sound to a slamming door.The support ship was not notified of a communication loss for several minutes, leaving the crew on the surface in the dark of the tragedy that took place.Because of the delay between the implosion audio and the communication loss message, Wendy Rush continued relaying messages from Titan back to the crew.“Dropped two weights,” she said over the radio.A nearby National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorder picked up the implosion.Static white noise filled the airwaves until a thunderous boom and reverb took over, according to the 20-second recording released in February.The Coast Guard’s investigation found the Titan’s carbon fiber shell had begun to break apart during a previous voyage to the Titan...