FACT CHECK: Facebook post shows no real images of Titan submersible wreckage

: A post on the Facebook page Guerrero Noticias features a series of pictures of underwater wreckage supposedly of the missing deep-sea submersible Titan. The photos were posted at 12:49 pm on June 22 by a news and media page based in Mexico. The post has garnered 5,700 reactions, 2,100 comments, and 8,400 shares as of writing.

The post’s caption, translated from Spanish, reads: “THE CREW OF THE TITAN DIED AFTER SUFFERING IMPLOSION AND BREAKING PIECES. French robot finds rubble near the Titanic. Experts say that this rubble belongs to the ‘Titan’ submarine and that the ship suffered an ‘implosion’ and was torn to pieces by so much pressure that is down there.”The post lacks context.

The photos used are actually from 2004 and came from the University of Rhode Island’s Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Ocean Exploration. The pictures show some of the remains of the originalOne of the pictures in the Facebook post can be seen in this 2021by OceanGate Expeditions, the same company behind the Titan submersible.

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