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Nicholas McEntyre, “OceanGate CEO’s Wife’s Reaction to Fatal Titan Sub Implosion Revealed in New Audio,” New York Post, May 23, 2025, https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/oceangate-ceo-stockton-rush-wife-wendy-rush-reaction-to-fatal-titan-sub-implosion/.
The wife of OceanGate’s doomed CEO unknowingly heard and reacted to the moment her husband’s Titan submersible fatally imploded while monitoring the private Titanic exploration on a separate ship, newly released audio reveals. Stockton Rush’s wife, OceanGate director Wendy Rush, was listening to audio from the submersible’s support ship along with other crew members when a “distinguishable” popping noise played over their sound system.
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Toi Trending Desk, “Titanic Reimagined: Stunning Digital Model Reveals Secrets of Its Final Hours,” The Times of India, May 24, 2025, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/titanic-reimagined-stunning-digital-model-reveals-secrets-of-its-final-hours/articleshow/121375932.cms.
Over a century after the Titanic sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, we’re still uncovering pieces of its story. And now, thanks to some jaw-dropping tech, we’re closer than ever to understanding what really happened during those final, chaotic hours. A new digital reconstruction built using over 700,000 underwater images has created the most detailed 3D model of the Titanic wreck to date. And trust us, it’s changing everything we thought we knew.
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Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press, “Video Released by U.S. Coast Guard Captures Moment of Titan Submersible Implosion,” New West Record, May 24, 2025, https://www.newwestrecord.ca/atlantic-news/video-released-by-us-coast-guard-captures-moment-of-titan-submersible-implosion-10706789.
Newly released video contains a sound investigators believe is the moment the Titan submersible imploded as it dove on the wreck of the Titanic nearly two years ago. The June 18, 2023 implosion claimed the lives of five people, including OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush, who was pilot of the submersible. In the video submitted to the United States Coast Guard by OceanGate , Rush’s wife, Wendy Rush, and Gary Foss — both members of the submersible’s tracking team — are shown in front of computer screens in the pilothouse of Titan’s support vessel Polar Prince.Shortly into the video a noise can be heard, prompting Wendy Rush to turn to Foss and say: “What was that bang?”
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Brandon Reid, “Wisconsin Maritime Museum Program to Highlight Lost Story of Chinese Survivors of Titanic,” Herald Times Reporter, May 26, 2025, https://www.htrnews.com/story/life/events/2025/05/26/titanic-true-story-chinese-survivors-of-shipwreck-at-wisconsin-maritime-museum-book-event-manitowoc/83790787007/.
Among those survivors were six Chinese seamen: Ah Lam, Chang Chip, Cheong Foo, Fang Lang (also known as Fong Wing Sun), Lee Bing and Ling Hee. Their survival defied overwhelming odds, but their stories were quickly buried beneath prejudice and xenophobia, according to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Within 24 hours of reaching New York, the men were expelled from the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act. For decades, their lives and experiences went unrecognized. That is until author and historian Steven Schwankert’s years of investigation — including interviews with descendants and global archival research — led to the rediscovery of their forgotten legacy.
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Joe Tarr, “Titanic Survivor From China Beat the Odds and Faced Racism to Land in Wisconsin,” WPR, last modified May 27, 2025, https://www.wpr.org/news/titanic-survivor-china-racism-wisconsin-milwaukee.
It came as a shock to Tom in 2003, almost two decades after his father had passed, when a relative told him his father had survived the most famous shipwreck ever: the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. Wing Sun was one of eight Chinese men onboard the ship. He did not make it on to any of the ship’s lifeboats while they were launching, and instead he ended up in the frigid waters. He miraculously survived when he came across a piece of wood — perhaps a table or a door — that he was able to hoist himself up onto and tie himself to with his belt. A lifeboat later rescued him. The Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect at the time and none of the Chinese survivors were allowed into the United States when they arrived in New York — they went on to other ships to work. Wing Sun worked for another eight years on ships before settling in Chicago and Milwaukee. He passed away in 1986.
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Hilary Mitchell, “Which Treasures Were Lost When Titanic Sank, and What Did Some Survivors Smuggle Onto Lifeboats?,” HistoryExtra, last modified June 3, 2025, https://www.historyextra.com/period/edwardian/treasures-lost-titanic-disaster-sinking-car/.
When Titanic sank in April 1912, undoubtedly the highest cost was the more than 1,500 people who perished in the disaster on the Atlantic Ocean. But with the prestige of its maiden voyage attracting wealthy clientele, there was also a huge number of treasures on board. Hilary Mitchell reveals the historical riches lost to the sea – from ancient trinkets to Victorian art valued as the most valuable of its day.
Suggested Titanic Reading
- Behe, G. (2012). On board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage. The History Press.
- Brewster, H. (2013). Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World. National Geographic Books.
- Eaton John P. & Haas Charles, TITANIC TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY, SECOND EDITION, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, 1995 First American Edition
- Rossignol, K. (2012). Titanic 1912: The Original News Reporting of the Sinking of the Titanic. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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