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What really happened to the Titanic sub? The tragic inside story

By Matthew Campbell
The Times·
21 mins to read

In June, Stockton Rush’s OceanGate vessel imploded 3,500m below the Atlantic, instantly killing all five crew. Matthew Campbell gets to the bottom of a tragedy years in the making.

In March 2019 Patrick Lahey, an undersea explorer, was on a yachting holiday with his family in the Bahamas. After coming ashore one evening he got into a conversation with a submarine crew at the bar. Their company, OceanGate Expeditions, had designed a submersible to take paying customers to the wreck

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