OceanGate
A resurfaced clip features the deep sea exploration company's co-founder, who died along with four others as they sought to visit the Titanic wreck.
For the first time, audio has been released of the knocking sounds heard during the search for the OceanGate vessel.
The debris and other material was collected on Oct. 4 and brought in for analysis.
“Who was the last person to murder two billionaires, at once, and have them pay for the privilege?” said fellow submersibles expert Karl Stanley.
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“I don’t respond to offensive rumors in the media usually, but I need to now,” the director wrote on Twitter.
“It seemed to almost be a nihilistic attitude toward life or death,” recalled Brian Weed, who participated in a test dive on the ill-fated Titan sub in 2021.
The announcement comes after the five-person submersible vanished during a dive to the Titanic on June 18. Authorities later said it imploded.
The submersible's thrusters malfunctioned on a dive filmed for a BBC documentary, leaving it circling at the bottom of the ocean.
The agency has convened a Marine Board of Investigation, its highest-level probe.
Dawood, who lost son Suleman and husband Shahzada Dawood in the disaster, said she was supposed to take that fatal voyage.