Over a year after the Titan submersible imploded and killed all on board, their final message has been revealed.
The sub, operated by OceanGate and known as Titan, went missing on June 18 2023 as it ventured to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.
After an hour and 45 minutes, it stopped sending signals back to its mothership, the Polar Prince, but the alarm wasn't raised until hours later.
When it stopped sending signals, it was reportedly situated just above the wreckage of the Titanic, and this was the last known location of the Titan.
The US Coast Guard wasn't alerted until 9:40PM when they received reports that a submersible had failed to reemerge 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod on the U.S. coast.
A search and rescue effort was launched, but sadly this proved to be unsuccessful as the submersible had imploded, killing all those onboard.
Onboard Titan was Stockton Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, French diving expert Paul Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
In one of the final communications from the ill-fated Titan submersible before its tragic implosion in June 2023, the five-person crew sent a message stating: "all good here," according to revelations made during a US Coast Guard hearing, per BBC News.
The message, one of the last exchanges between the submersible and its support ship, Polar Prince, was sent just before communication was lost.
Investigators disclosed this and other critical details as they aimed to uncover the cause of the disaster that killed all five people aboard.
For the first time, an image of Titan's tail cone, found on the sea floor after the implosion, was shown at the hearing.
The remotely operated vehicle captured the haunting image of the debris, confirming the catastrophic failure of the deep-sea vessel, which occurred less than two hours into its descent toward the Titanic wreck.
The two-week inquiry, launched on Monday by Coast Guard officials, seeks to determine the facts behind the incident and recommend measures to prevent future tragedies.
A recreation of the ill-fated journey was presented, including text messages exchanged between the Titan and the Polar Prince.
Tym Catterson, who was present when the Titan began its dive, shared his thoughts on how the passengers likely spent their final moments.
"What I found and what I feel is that the implosion happened instantaneously," Catterson said, cited by PEOPLE.
Catterson, who worked as a platform operator on the support ship Polar Prince, speculated that the failure occurred "at the forward glue line at the ring," rather than the sub’s viewport, as there were no shards found.
According to him, the failure would have occurred so quickly that the passengers "had no idea this was coming."
"I just want to make sure you let the public know nobody was suffering in there," he testified. "As a matter of fact, they were probably happy... waiting to see the Titanic when this happened."
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