The passengers on the doomed Titanic sub likely spent their final moments in total darkness looking out at eerie bioluminescent creatures floating by and listening to their favorite music. Tragic d…
how the trip had been a culmination of the family’s obsession with the 111-year-old wreckage, which grabbed their imagination when they visited a Titanic exhibit in Singapore in 2012.
“We were actually quite worried, like, ‘Oh, my god, what if they cancel that flight as well?’ ” Chrsitine told the Times.But the family made it to the Polar Prince in time, and Christine and her 17-year-old daughter, Alina, were aboard June 18 to watch Shahzada, Suleman and three others — OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, 61, famed Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58 — crawl into the 22-foot sub and disappear into the Atlantic Ocean.
“‘Oh, my god, this is so cool,’” she recalled her husband saying. “He was lapping everything up. He had this big glow on his face talking about all this nerdy stuff.” He told the Times that Rush could not get the vehicle’s “drop-weight mechanism” to release for ascent, so he instructed the passengers to try rocking the sub to help.
Price said he and other passengers were told the pressure from the ocean would be like smashing a coke can with a sledgehammer or being crushed by an elephant standing on one foot — with 100 more pachyderms on top of it. Rush told passengers they should have a “low-residue diet” the day before the trip, along with no coffee the morning of. He also recommended they wear thick socks and a beanie because of the frigid temperatures of the Atlantic.
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