See the Surprising Items That Survived the OceanGate Sub Implosion

The 2023 OceanGate Titan submersible implosion left no survivors and minimal bodily remnants … however now the U.S. Coast Guard has revealed the stunning objects that did survive the tragic catastrophe.

In a TikTok shared by Discovery, a US Coast Guard member reveals a pen — utterly intact — was discovered whereas she and her colleagues had been sifting by the waterlogged stays of the Titan.

The official reveals the pen was found in a surviving piece of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush‘s swimsuit sleeve and was “caked” in sand.

Additionally present in his sleeve had been enterprise playing cards and Titanic-themed stickers … once more, utterly astounding in a “sludge-like” particles discipline consisting of carbon fiber, fiberglass, digital elements and what might be thought of as human stays.

The Coast Guard member expressed bewilderment that such objects had been in a position to be pulled from the wreckage, noting … “Every a kind of items, even the pen, was nonetheless intact. It hadn’t been damaged. All of this particles, all of this stuff shattered however his pen was nonetheless intact.”

The official additionally defined how such artifacts may have survived, likening the Titan’s surviving “endcap” to a “mixing bowl” that protected objects that turned “encased inside” it.

The spectacular discovery comes simply shy of the second anniversary of the Titan’s catastrophic implosion that killed Rush and 4 passengers whereas on a journey to view the Titanic wreckage.

As you will recall … the US and Canadian Coast Guards employed an intensive rescue mission after communication was lost between the submersible and its mom ship on July 18, 2023.