“Plunged in the dark and to the music”: Details of the last hours of the life of the crew of the “Titan” appeared (4 photos)

The New York Times published an article on how spent the last hours of their lives five passengers of the bathyscaphe "Titan", which exploded near the Titanic that sank in 1912 depths of the North Atlantic.





"The last time Kristin Dowd saw her husband Shahzade and their son Suleman, they seemed like dust particles in the North Atlantic, swaying about 400 miles from land. It was Father's Day, June 18, and she watched from the support ship as they climbed into the 22-foot an underwater vessel called the Titan, writes the NYT.



Iranian billionaire Shahzade Dawood's wife, Christine, who lost her husband and son in this disaster, in an interview with reporters remembered that her 19-year-old son took the Rubik's cube with him on the expedition, and husband a Nikon camera, which was going to shoot the seabed.





Mr. Dowd's wife, Christina, said her husband could not curb your enthusiasm for going on the Titanic by repeating: “I'm diving tomorrow! I'm diving tomorrow!"

The divers closed them inside by tightening a ring of bolts when the ship was rocking on the waves at about 13,000 feet above the 111-year-old the wreckage of the Titanic.

In the OceanGate Expeditions company itself, which organized a descent to the sunken Titanic to talk with journalists refused. As journalists say, inside the bathyscaphe looked like SUV car only without the usual seats.



The situation was very ascetic, on the floor lay a rubber rug, and on the ceiling for each member of the expedition were attached two handles, that you could hold on to. Before leaving on an expedition, worth $250,000, the participants were advised to wear hats and warm socks, prepare for listening inside the bathyscaphe your favorite music and don't drink coffee before descending.

Kristin watched the dive, and after 1 hour 45 minutes she learned that communication with the bathyscaphe was lost. Toward evening someone told her that the Titan's whereabouts were unknown. Four days later Kristin learned from the press that the bathyscaphe exploded, and everyone who was on board, were killed instantly. According to experts, on board could implosion occurs, that is, an explosion directed inward.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush personally visited London convince Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son to safety of the expedition to the Titanic on the bathyscaphe "Titan", writes Daily Mail. As Rush argued at the meeting, diving would be "safer crossing the street." As a result, both Dawood and his son and Rush himself were among dead passengers of the Titan.