The 3-word message sent by the Titan Submersible riders before the implosion

The message was sent around 10:15 a.m. in Newfoundland on June 18, 2023, according to the animation.

Shortly before the message, the Polar Prince sent the sub several messages over the course of 12 minutes, asking if it could see the support vessel on its display, but the Titan did not respond.

When he finally answered about four minutes later, the Polar Prince texted, “I need better communications from you,” to which the Titan replied, “Yes.”

The last message Titan sent to Polar Prince was “missed by 2g”, according to the animation. This referred to the weights that Titan could shed to return to the surface, according to CNN.

The animation showed the Titan losing contact with the Polar Prince at 10:47

The hearing in North Charleston, South Carolina, is scheduled to last two weeks.

“It aims to uncover the facts surrounding the incident and develop recommendations to prevent similar tragedies in the future,” the Coast Guard’s Sept. 6 news release about the hearing said.

The witness list includes former OceanGate staff such as Tony Nissen, its director of engineering, Bonnie Carl, and David Lochridge, its director of operations.

The hearing comes more than a year after the submersible Titan set out to explore the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, nearly 13,000 meters underwater.

After the support vessel lost contact with the submersible, a frantic search and rescue operation ensued.

US Coast Guard and OceanGate announced on June 22, 2023, that debris found on the seabed confirmed that the submersible had exploded and that the five men on board were dead.

The victims were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani multimillionaire Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, and former French navy diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet.