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Claims that the passengers on OceanGate’s Titan submersible faked their deaths are baseless. All five passengers were presumed dead after debris was found indicating the submersible imploded.

Debris from the Titan, including the submersible’s tail cone, was discovered about 1,600 feet from the Titanic, and Coast Guard Rear Adm. John MaugerBack on land, some people are airing unfounded assumptions about the incident.

"OK, let’s think about it: the weird-ass submarine goes to the Titanic and goes missing with a submarine full of billionaires," one person said in a videoJune 22 on Instagram."They’re alive. They never got on that ship. There’s no shot that all those billionaires just coincidentally were on the same ship. Let’s look into their financials. Let’s look into their legal dealings. Has nobody watched a movie? This is gonna be a massive scandal — fraud.

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