US Navy sources tell the Wall Street Journal that its top secret undersea microphone equipment detected the sound of the OceanGate Expeditions Titan submersible imploding shortly after communication was lost with the vessel while on its the way to the wreck of the Titanic.
Navy signals personnel had tuned in to the microphones pretty much immediately after learning that contact had been lost with the submersible. “The US Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior US Navy official told the Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
Our guess is the Navy are just trying to help fill in some of the gaps in the public’s understanding of what the hell happened which is fine, but what the fuck? They were fairly certain it had crumpled in on itself and kept quiet for days while stupid NewsNation had a goddamned “OXYGEN REMAINING” clock on its screen? If the whole point of keeping quiet was to protect their intel “sources and methods” we get it. So why the hell would they tell the Journal this now though?