YouTuber recorded on Titan before disaster

A YouTuber posted a video of himself on the same OceanGate Expeditions vessel just weeks before the Titanic-bound submersible imploded and killed the five people on board.

Jake, also known as Dallmyd, was booked for a trip on Mission III, but the excursion was canceled due to computer malfunctions and rough weather conditions.

“If my dive wasn’t canceled, it could’ve been me inside that submarine today,” the YouTuber, who calls himself a “treasure hunter,” told his 13.4 million followers in a clip he shared on Friday.

“It’s crazy to think, but if the weather cleared up and the conditions were perfect and Stockton looked over at me and said, … ‘Do you wanna go?’ … I would’ve done it … And my fate could’ve been just like the five who lost their lives just recently on Mission 5.”

In the more than 25-minute video, he gave a behind-the-scenes look into a nine-day excursion he took with his girlfriend, which started with taking a boat trip in Newfoundland to the submersible.


Titan submersible
A YouTuber shared a video of himself on the same OceanGate Expeditions vessel just weeks before the Titanic-bound submersible imploded.
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Jake, also known as Dallmyd, was booked for a trip on Mission III, but the excursion was canceled due to computer malfunctions and rough weather conditions.
Jake was booked for a trip on Mission III, but the excursion was canceled due to computer malfunctions and rough weather conditions.
YouTube @DALLMYD

“There’s gonna be a lot of laughs, a lot of smiles, a lot of jokes,” he warned. “Please keep in mind we’re all just trying to have a good time and I had no idea what the future had in store for everyone.”

Although his trip was canceled, Jake actually performed a 3,000-foot test dive with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who weeks later perished en route to explore the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic.

He filmed himself inside the vessel with Stockton and the rest of the crew — including them going underwater.


"If my dive wasn't canceled, it could've been me inside that submarine today," the YouTuber told his followers in a video he shared on Friday.
“If my dive wasn’t canceled, it could’ve been me inside that submarine today,” the YouTuber told his followers in a video he shared on Friday.
YouTube @DALLMYD

“Keep in mind, what you’re looking at right now is the exact same submersible that imploded and killed five people,” he explained.

Scuba Jake, as he calls himself on Instagram, also talks about “P.H.,” the late Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the French deep-sea explorer and Titanic expert, who also died aboard.

Nargeolet autographed a piece of paper for Jake, which he said could be his last signature.

There is also footage of both Stockton and Nargeolet signing the flag for Jake’s mission.


In the video, Jake gave a behind-the-scenes look into a nine-day excursion he took with his girlfriend.
In the video, Jake gave a behind-the-scenes look into a nine-day excursion he took with his girlfriend.
YouTube @DALLMYD

Jake interviewed a man who explained the engineering test dive was canceled due to a computer "acting up a little bit," wind, and "choppy seas."
Jake interviewed a man who explained the engineering test dive was canceled due to a computer “acting up a little bit,” wind, and “choppy seas.”
YouTube @DALLMYD

Jake also interviewed a man who explained why the engineering test dive was canceled due to a computer “acting up a little bit,” wind, and “choppy seas.”

“It just didn’t seem quite right, to put it bluntly, and that’s why I called it,” Rush was recorded saying in the clip, which already has over 655,000 views.

The problems continued throughout, Jake explained in the video.

“Long story short, every day they did have some problems,” he said.

“It seems weird now, but at the time, it just seemed like an everyday thing.”