A video of the Titan submarine imploding and killing five men on board on June 18, minutes before the adventure began, has been viewed by 5 million people in just 11 days since it appeared on YouTube.

The submarine Titan, made by the Oceangate Expeditions company and used for expeditions to the remains of the Titanic, suffered a “catastrophic implosion” nearly 13,000 feet below the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Lost communication with the ship, and after an intense search, his five crew members were pronounced dead by the United States Coast Guard on June 22.

The YouTube account AiTelly described the mind-boggling implosion that happened last month, showing how and why the submarine, intended to visit the Titanic’s wreckage, it collapsed in on itself due to the enormous pressure under water.

The Titan lost communication with its support ship on the same Sunday, June 18, while descending into the wreckage of the Titanic 12,500 feet below the surface. The rubble was recovered days later. It was said to have suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’.

Tourists Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and their son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, French Navy pilot Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush were traveling on the ship. They died in the submarine. Each of the passengers paid $250,000 for the adventure.

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On Sunday, June 18, the submarine OceanGate was launched into the Atlantic Ocean at around 08:00 over the Titanic wreck site in the North Sea.

The five passengers began to descend while Rush steered the boat. At 09:45 it lost contact with its mothership, the ship Polar Prince.

OceanGate’s five passengers on the Titan submarine, left to right, top: Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding. Below: Paul-Henry Nargeolet, Stockton Rush. Photo: GETTY IMAGES

It took OceanGate Expeditions eight hours to report it disappearance of the submarine to the US Coast Guard after it lost contact. That sparked a massive international response to rescue the five passengers.

Days later, it was announced that the five people aboard the submarine had died in a probable implosion. It was also revealed that a US Navy tracking system picked up a possible noise from the implosion during descent, but search efforts continued. After the deaths of the five passengers were announced, it was revealed that wreckage from the imploded submarine had been found near the Titanic’s location.

Their investigation began at the end of June, a day after it emerged that human remains had been found during the salvage mission and parts of the ship had washed ashore. Chief Inspector Kent Osmond of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a team of detectives has been assembled for the sole purpose of determining whether a criminal investigation is warranted. “Such an investigation will only proceed if our investigation of the circumstances indicates that federal or provincial criminal laws may have been violated,” the ministry said.