Crew member on Titan's mothership filmed moment craft began its doomed descent to Titanic wreck in selfie footage the 22-year-old photographer posted on TikTok

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[algore]

Video shows the moment the OceanGate Expeditions submersible began its doomed voyage to the Titanic wreck in selfie footage posted to TikTok.

Abbi Jackson, a 22-year-old videographer employed by the company onboard the mothership, Polar Prince, shared the short video before the vessel disappeared.

The post, captioned 'watching a submarine go down to the Titanic' pans away from the ship's deck to show Titan on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean some distance away.

Miss Jackson also filmed one of the sub's passengers, Paul Henri Nargeolet, who has been dubbed 'Mr Titanic' for visiting the wreckage 37 times. The 77-year-old is seen sitting on the side of an inflatable boat before waving and smiling at the camera.

Miss Jackson has since shared her thoughts on the missing sub on Instagram, where she thanked well-wishers for their concern and asked them to pray for the five people who remain missing under the Atlantic.

Also on board were British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, 58, UK-based businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

[TermLimits4All]

I was thinking the same thing. 77 uear old might have thought he belonged down there or a diagnosis that made the decision easy for him.

[DesertRhino]

Look at that smug look. In microcosm that look encapsulates the arrogance of the thinking of that whole company.

[GranTorino]

Looks stoned to me.
Whole crew probably was.

[battousai]

Two prevailing theories:

1. Sub imploded about two hours into the mission. 2. There was a fire on board.

There were many problems with this vessel:

- Supporting staff was all under age 30 with little or no sub experience. - The 5-inch-thick carbon-fiber material was never fully tested at 4000 meters depth. - There were no gas safety monitors on board to check O2 and other gas levels. - There were no extra oxygen tanks and masks on board. - 96-hour life support system was never tested with a full crew on board. - The hatch could only be opened from the outside. - There was no emergency transponder in the vessel. - PlayStation joystick to control the vessel was wireless and there was no back-up system if it failed. - Communications system was not voice capable and had a tendency to black out.

So basically, it was an underwater coffin

Give credit where its due, that is a list that comes from Sub Brief, the excellent YouTube channel run by an ex US submariner:

The Titan Tragedy

[mware]

The investigation into this will be interesting. Like why did they wait 8 hours to report the incident?

[DCBryan1]

Aaron is a leftist, but a good submariner.

[DCBryan1]

Don't worry Oceans Gate, right now 50 year old white males are rushing to try to save you!

[battousai]

Aaron is a leftist, but a good submariner.

Is he? I've watched some of his videos and he just seemed to stick to the facts, even in this case he pointed out the CEO's 'no 50 year old white men' quote. Anyway I can separate the content from the person as long as his politics don't cloud the latter.