YouTuber MrBeast Turned Down Trip On Missing Titanic Submersible, Says 'Its Kind Of Scary That…'

JE News Desk: Famous YouTuber MrBeast said that he refused an offer for a trip on the submersible  ’Titan’, that imploded last week while on its way to the Titanic wreckage. There were five people in that vessel that went missing in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The submersible was operated by OceanGate Expeditions and had reportedly dived to the Titanic wreckage several times before its last descent. OceanGate charges a hefty sum to people who wish to go the depths of the ocean to see the wreckage of a ship that was once believed to be “unsinkable”.

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The five people who died after the vessel imploded in North Atlantic Ocean were - OceanGate Chief Executive Stockton Rush, billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistan business tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood. MrBeast could have been the sixth the person in the vessel.

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MrBeast’s real name is James Donaldson. He is reportedly the most subscribed individual YouTuber, according to a report by The Independent. He is also the owner of the second most subscribed YouTube channel overall.

“I was invited earlier this month to ride the Titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” Donaldson said in a tweet.

“Also, I’m going to the Titanic in a submarine late this month. The team would be stoked to have you along,” a message, the screenshot of which was shared by Donaldson along with his tweet, read.

“Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub. A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified and so on,” James Cameron, Director of the classic film Titanic and an avid diver himself, was quoted saying by ABC news.

“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,” he said. 

Cameron has made several trips himself to the Titanic wreckage. He became the first person to complete a solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth’s ocean in 2012.

“For us, a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded to take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal,” he said.