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How doomed Titan sub ‘solved’ Titanic mystery a year before fatal implosion

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The doomed Titan submersible actually “solved” a Titanic mystery a year before its fatal implosion. open image in gallery The Titan solved a Titanic mystery a year before it imploded “We didn’t know what we would discover,” he said. It is speculated that this resulted in its “catastrophic implosion” last June, which claimed the lives of five people including Nargoelet – British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Sulaiman, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. open image in gallery The submersible imploded around two hours into its dive to the Titanic last June Now experts including Titanic director James Cameron are questioning how OceanGate were ever able to offer commercial expeditions that cost $250,000 a head to the wreck.