Haunting ‘knocking’ sound from Titan sub heard for 1st time in new documentary

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Titan submersible disappeared in June 2023, rescuers held out hope of finding survivors after they heard strange, rhythmic knocking noises believed to be coming from the OceanGate vessel.Though there were no survivors, the eerie knocking sounds are now being featured in an upcoming documentary about the submersible’s implosion, called Minute by Minute: The Titan Sub Disaster.Before now, the audio had never been released to the public. The sound clip was given to the ITN Productions’ documentary crew in the U.K.

by the Canadian Air Force, which led the search and rescue mission.In a newly released clip for the documentary, four steady bangs can be heard in the sonar recordings.“It sounds like it could be somebody knocking, the symmetry between those knockings is very unusual,” Ryan Ramsey, a former Navy submarine captain from the U.K., says in the documentary clip.The mysterious sounds were picked up by Canadian aircraft that dropped sonobuoys in the area of the missing sub. The knocking was heard periodically “every 30 minutes,” according to a statement from the U.S.

Coast Guard at the time.“It’s rhythmic, it’s like somebody is making that sound and the fact that it’s repeated is really unusual,” Ramsey said.After a frantic search, it was revealed the Titan submersible imploded on its descent. A U.S.

Navy official told CBS News the banging noises were most likely either ocean noise or noise from other search ships.Minute by Minute: The Titan Sub Disaster will air on the U.K.’s Channel 5 on March 6 and 7.The two-part documentary will also feature rarely seen footage from adventurer Arthur Loibl’s previous Titan expeditions. Loibl is one of the first people to ever to travel to the Titanic wreck in Oceangate’s Titan