2023-06-26 00:25:15
With the announcement of the death of the passengers of the submarine “Titan”, which went missing near the wreck of the ship “Titanic” a few days ago, following it was subjected to an internal explosion, two pictures appeared on pages and accounts on social networking sites that were said to show its wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. But these two pictures have nothing to do with the stricken submarine, but rather the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank more than a century ago.
The two photos show what appear to be debris and the remains of personal belongings at the bottom of the sea.
Their publishers said they show the wreckage of the submarine “Titan” 400 meters from the sinking site of the “Titanic” at a depth of four thousand meters.
The two photos garnered hundreds of posts and thousands of comments on social media in several languages around the world.
The two pictures showing the wreckage are not real
According to what was signed by the journalists of the news investigation service at Agence France-Presse, these publications began to appear following the announcement Thursday of the death of the five passengers of the submarine “Titan”, which went missing near the wreck of the “Titanic”.
The submarine’s operator, Oceangate, said in a statement that it believed the five occupants were dead.
On the same day, the US Coast Guard announced that the wreckage of the submarine, which was found nearby thanks to a robot, indicated that there had been a “catastrophic implosion”.
In this context, the two images circulated on social media appeared, and were said to be of the wreckage of the stricken submarine.
However, no picture of the wreckage was issued by the US authorities or rescue teams in the days following the accident.
A source in the Coast Guard told AFP on Friday, June 23, that the authorities “we have not published any pictures or video clips of the wreck.”
The source called for not trusting any image that is not issued in an official statement or published on the official pages on the communication sites.
What is the truth of the two pictures?
In addition to the image of the intact submarine attached to some publications, which had previously been published in several sites in conjunction with the news regarding the “Titan” submarine’s voyage, inspection of the first image under scrutiny, in which what appeared to be the remains of a shoe, showed that it was published on news websites and news agencies. Years ago, what denies being the wreckage of the submarine that went missing last week.
The publishing sites and media institutions indicated that the photo was taken in 2004, and it was distributed at that time by US bodies concerned with deep-sea science, and it was filmed at the site of the “Titanic” wreck.
As for the second photo, it was also published years ago, which also denies that it is recent. It was also taken, similar to the first photo, in the context of an automated reconnaissance mission surrounding the wreck site of the Titanic, which sank in the second decade of the twentieth century.
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