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| - Fact Check: NOT the missing Titan sub's footage, this clip is from a different Titanic expedition from 2022
While this video is also from an OceanGate expedition, it predates the current incident by almost a year.
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India Today Fact Check
This video was captured by OceanGate in its August 2022 expedition. It predates the sub that’s gone missing right now by almost a year.
As rescuers continued to scour the North Atlantic Ocean for the missing Titan submersible, which disappeared on June 18 with five people on board, an eerie video began making the round on social media. Purportedly, the video showed the exact moment when the controller of the missing sub stopped working.
The viral clip showed the wreckage of what appeared to be the Titanic underwater. The clip contained the logo of OceanGate Expeditions. The passengers inside the OceanGate sub that has gone missing, reportedly spent $250,000 each to see the sunken remains of the iconic vessel. Archived versions of such posts can be found here and here.
India Today found that this video is old and shows a Titanic expedition from 2022.
Our Probe
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to its extended version shared by the official YouTube channel of OceanGate Expeditions. Shared on August 30, 2022, details mentioned on YouTube noted that the video showed the remains of the RMS Titanic that sank in 1912. The video’s description read: “During our 2022 expedition to the world's most iconic shipwreck, we were able to capture the very first 8K video of the Titanic.”
Several media outlets published reports on OceanGate’s 2022 expedition, and some of them featured this video. Per CNN the video was captured 2.4 miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, around 740 km from Newfoundland, Canada. It also quoted Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO onboard the missing Titan, saying that the company will capture more such detailed footage in 2023 and beyond.
OceanGate is a company operating out of Everett, Washington, that offers a fleet of five-person submersibles that can reach depths of 4,000 metres. Since its founding in 2009, OceanGate has made expeditions to the Salish Sea, Greater Farralones, and Monterey Bay, among other places.
Thus, it is more than clear that an old video from OceanGate’s 2022 expedition is being wrongly shared as the last video shot from the missing Titan.
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