Was The Titan Submersible Log Transcript Fake? Year-Long Investigation Reveals Truth

The log transcript of communications between the Titan submersible and its mothership has been determined to be completely fake following a year-long investigation.

Earlier claims had stated that the logbook detailed the final communication between the doomed submersible and the mothership, as reported by Hindustan Times.

The Titan Submersible Log Transcript Fake

Despite being released last year, doubts regarding the document's legitimacy persisted. Now, The New York Times has reported that the head of the US government team investigating the disaster believes the log is entirely fake. Alongside other factors, the team was also investigating the nature and authenticity of the transcript.

According to Capt. Jason D. Neubauer, who retired from the US Coast Guard and currently serves as chairman of the Marine Board of Investigation, the team was unable to find any evidence indicating that the passengers on the submersible had any clue about the disaster they were about to face. "I'm confident it's a false transcript ... it was made up," he stated.

The logs purported to reveal minute-by-minute communications between the Titan and the mothership before the implosion that claimed the lives of the five passengers on board - OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, as reported by Hindustan Times.

The logs, which were released and circulated widely on social media, even contained acronyms and technical words unique to the submersible. The transcript suggested that the passengers were in a state of panic, and that hull alarms went off inside the vehicle before communication was abruptly cut off, as per media report.

Days after the submersible went missing, debris was discovered near the Titanic's resting place. It was then officially declared that the Titan had suffered a "catastrophic implosion." In the days following the discovery of the debris, the transcript began circulating, suggesting that "they (passengers on board) were panicking." "Somebody did it well enough to make it look plausible," Neubauer remarked.