On Sunday, June 18, the Titan submersible embarked on a journey to explore the wreckage of the Titanic with five passengers aboard: Stockton Rush (the founder of OceanGate), Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, and Dalwood's and his 19-year-old son Suleman. The problems started pretty much immediately, with the craft's communications failing within the first two hours of the voyage, and on Thursday, June 22, it was determined that the five passengers had perished.
During a press conference and after an extensive search, Rear Adm. John Mauger, who serves as the commander of the First Coast Guard District, delivered the sobering news. The experts believe that a "catastrophic implosion" happened shortly after communications were lost, especially after they found debris from the Titan itself near the Titanic's wreckage; Maugher specifically said the debris they found was "consistent with the catastrophic loss of its pressure chamber."
This conclusion comes after days of speculation over whether or not the men on board were still alive, but there's still a lot of unanswered questions where the Titan is concerned — and many of those answers might never come. In any case, "The Simpsons" has the weirdest possible connection to this entire situation, and its prediction streak remains scarily accurate.
