COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: A social media content creator has spoken about his own experience with the doomed Titan, which reportedly perished along with five men, who were on board it. The OceanGate’s tourist vessel was on its journey toward Titanic’s wreckage when the mishap happened and its debris was found on Thursday, June 22.
The YouTuber named Dallmyd, who is also known as Jake, had the experience to ride inside the Titan before the 22ft craft became the victim of a “catastrophic implosion”. In a YouTube video, he said as per The Sun, “If my dive wasn't canceled, it could've been me inside that submarine today.”
Referring to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who also died along with four other men, Dallmyd stated, “It's crazy to think if the weather cleared up and the conditions were perfect and Stockton looked up at me and said, 'Do you wanna go?' I would've done it. And my fate could've been just like the five who had lost their lives on that same submarine.”
Who is Dallmyd?
Dallmyd describes himself as a treasure hunter, who has 13.4 million subscribers on YouTube. On his page, he mentioned, “My adventures take us scuba diving, freediving, magnet fishing, metal detecting, crystal hunting, fossil hunting, shark tooth hunting, artifact hunting, and more for our search of the ultimate treasures!” Besides, he has an Instagram page that boasts of more than 400k followers.
The man explained in the video that he went on Mission III, days before the unfortunate Mission V voyage. Footage from his time at the OceanGate’s expedition showed a staff member saying, “Everybody's ready to go and one of the computers, we've got two spheres, two computers, that control a lot of the thrusters and one of them was acting up a little bit. It was offline. They restarted it and it came back online but some of the functionality wasn't exactly as we'd hoped. That, coupled with some winds and little choppy seas, [is why] we decided to scrub the dive for today.”
‘Maybe we would've imploded’
The video also showed Rush speaking to the workers as he said, “So, it just didn't seem quite right, to put it bluntly, and that's why I called it. But mostly because we've got to find out what this control problem is. That's sort of important controlling the sub - it's up there with life support. So, we'll be working tonight on that.”
After some days, when the condition felt suitable for a 3,000-foot test dive, the required steps were taken to execute it. But soon after that, the mission was aborted again because of the fog. Dallmyd remarked, “If the fog didn't roll in and cancel the dive, who knows, maybe we would've left that platform, and maybe we would've imploded.”
In his YouTube video, Dallmyd also paid tribute to Rush and British billionaire Hamish Harding, businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son Suleman, and French researcher Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who all died with the Titan. He said, “I didn't know these people too well but they treated me very nicely, and I lost a few friends,” before adding, “I think this is a big reminder, not only to myself but everyone, that life is very precious, and it can go away very quickly.”
