Former Navy SEAL Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) has a lot of questions concerning the failed emergency rescue attempt of the doomed submersible Titan that had five onboard by the Coast Guard, Navy, and Biden administration, calling it an “epic failure of leadership.”

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Crenshaw was visibly frustrated and angry over the slow and misleading response to the tragedy. He spoke with Fox News host Trace Gallagher on Thursday night following the announcement that Titan had imploded and all onboard were officially lost.

“I have been hearing a lot of concerning things from people, the civilian side who are involved in this,” Crenshaw told reporters on the steps of the Capitol. “You know, we’ve got to look into it, see what’s true and what isn’t…What appears to be the case is an epic failure in leadership. Where exactly that leadership failure is, I don’t know. Is it the White House, Coast Guard, Navy? I’m not sure.”

Crenshaw reviewed the timeline of the tragedy from the moment it was announced on Sunday that contact with the submersible had been lost. He stated that leadership failed to deploy a 6K ROV and a Magellan submarine. Both pieces of equipment would have been critical to the rescue.

“Now, it’s important to note, that if you had just deployed those assets, they would have arrived on scene by Wednesday morning at the latest,” Crenshaw noted during the interview on Fox News. “That tapping continues to be heard and chatted about in all these channels throughout Wednesday. Then it stops late Wednesday. They finally deploy that 6K ROV, the only thing capable of actually going to that depth and seeing what’s down there this morning. It deploys down there and the wreckage was exactly where they thought it would be. So where’s the failure here? The failure is to not put all your options on the table.

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“You saw that Wall Street Journal article about, ‘The U.S. Navy heard this implosion, with their acoustic systems.’ So, what seems to me is that the leadership, the Coast Guard, was operating off of this assumption that that was an implosion. Now, other experts in this industry tell me that that could have easily been the sub just hitting the floor,” he pointed out.

“And then you add that with this tapping, which was apparently like your standard procedure SOS, every half hour, you are hearing that throughout the day Tuesday and Wednesday, it begs the question — could this have been resolved differently if leadership had just acted sooner and actually put options on the table instead of just assuming, well it doesn’t matter because they’re dead,” Crenshaw charged.

According to Fox News, “The U.S. Navy detected what it suspected may have been an implosion within hours of the Titan submersible descending into the ocean to visit the Titanic wreckage.”

The Navy evidently began listening for the Titan immediately after the vessel lost contact with the mother ship. That was about an hour and 45 minutes after it departed for the Titanic on Sunday morning.

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The Navy’s top secret acoustic detection system picked up sounds that they believe were either an explosion or an implosion. They then passed the information onto the Coast Guard which continued its search because the data was not deemed definitive.

On Thursday, the Coast Guard confirmed that a debris field found earlier in the day was the missing Titan submersible. A remotely operated submarine from a Canadian ship found the debris on the ocean floor. Authorities claim all onboard died instantly when the vessel imploded.

US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters that the debris was consistent with the “catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”

“Titanic” director James Cameron claims he predicted Titan’s implosion days before the debris from the missing submersible was found. Cameron, who is also a submersible expert who has visited the Titanic 30 times, asserted that the tragedy was eerily similar to the 1912 disaster.

He told BBC News that the search “felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff. I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it.”

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“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 needed to be certified and so on,” Cameron said, referring to the Titan as unsafe.

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

The director went on to say he was certain what happened immediately after the vessel lost contact.

“I felt in my bones what had happened. I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community. Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3500 meters, heading for the bottom at 3800 meters. For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously – sub’s gone,” he contended.

Fox’s @MikeTobinFox: “The Wall Street Journal is reporting that top secret US Navy technology heard the implosion of the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communication [last Sunday]. The detection, according to the WSJ, was reported to the incident commander of the search…” pic.twitter.com/pd15zHVH1A

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 22, 2023

“We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings,” Cameron commented.

Inside Titan were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush; British businessman turned adventurer billionaire Hamish Harding; Pakistan billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a former French navy officer and leading Titanic expert.

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