HANDOUT/OceanGate Expeditions/AFP via Getty; Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Newly-released audio footage shared by the U.S. Coast Guard appeared to show the moment the sound of the doomed OceanGate Titan submersible's implosion reached the surface of the ocean The wife of OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush, Wendy Rush, heard the sound in the video while sitting in the support ship "What was that bang?" she asked while monitoring data and text communications at a computer with another crew member A newly-released audio recording is thought to have captured the moment the sound of the doomedOceanGateTitansubmersible's implosionreached the surface of the ocean. The U.S. Coast Guardreleased a clipon Thursday, May 22, showingOceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush'swife, Wendy Rush, monitoring data and text communications at a computer alongside Gary Foss, who was part of the communications and tracking team for theTitansubmersible. They were on board the support vessel,Polar Prince, near theTitanicwreckage site in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023 whenthe incident occurred, the USCG stated in the clip's caption. "A sound heard at the 24-second mark, later correlated with the loss of communications and tracking, is believed to be the sound of theTitan's implosion reaching the surface of the ocean," the USCG wrote. In the clip, Wendy asked, "What was that bang?" The noise was heard when the sub reached a depth of approximately 3,300 meters, theBBCnoted. Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty The video also showed Wendy then receiving messages from the sub saying it had dropped two weights. As previously reported by PEOPLE, theTitanmessaged about weightsat 10:47 a.m. Contact with the submersible was lost almost immediately after the messages were sent, the Coast Guard previously said. The USCG told the BBC that the text message was likely sent before the vessel failed, and it just took longer to reach the support ship than the sound of the implosion. The outlet stated the clip had been presented as evidence, as the USCG Marine Board of Investigation continues to look into the tragedy. Wendy's husband, Stockton, 61, was amongthe five victimson board the vessel. Adventurers Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and father and son Shahzada, 48, and Suleman Dawood, 19, were also killed. JOEL SAGET,HANDOUT/Dirty Dozen Productions/OceanGat/AFP via Getty Images The USCG is set to publish a final report on the findings from the investigation later this year, per the BBC. The outlet stated that the hull, which is the main body of the vessel where the passengers sat, was made up of layers of carbon fibre mixed with resin. Carbon fibre is "unreliable under pressure," according to reporting by the outlet, which also reported that the USCG believed the layers of the hull had started to break apart during a dive to theTitanicwreck the year before the 2023 tragedy. The outlet has been looking further into the incident for its upcoming documentary,Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster. Former OceanGate contractor Tym Catterson testified in front of the USCG Marine Board of Investigation, sharing howhe thought the passengers spent their last momentson the 22-foot-long vessel. "What I found and what I feel is that the implosion happened instantaneously," Catterson, who was there when theTitanbegan its dive on June 18, 2023, said in September 2024. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Catterson said that he believed it wasn't the viewport (also known as windows or portholes) that "failed because there [were] no shards there." He believes the failure "happened at the forward glue line at the ring," which would have had to "happen extraordinarily fast." "Which means the people in there, they had no idea this was coming. I just want to make sure you let the public know nobody was suffering in there," Chatterson testified. "As a matter of fact, they were probably happy to say they were all waiting to see theTitanicwhen this happened." Read the original article onPeople
