MrBeast said that he was asked to board the OceanGate submersible.
Last week, it was reported that the crew of the missing Titan tourist submersible had died in a ‘catastrophic implosion’.
The OceanGate Expeditions yacht went missing on Sunday, June 18, after failing to resurface.
MrBeast, a 25-year-old YouTuber whose real name is James Stephen Donaldson, has now released a screenshot of a text message inviting him onboard the Titan.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he wrote: ‘I was invited earlier this month to ride the Titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it.’
An iMessage screenshot attached to the tweet read: ‘Also, I’m going to the Titanic in a submarine late this month. The team would be stoked to have you along.’
I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it pic.twitter.com/bQUnaRiczA
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) June 25, 2023
MrBeast is far from the only celebrity to speak up against the Titanic disaster.
Titanic filmmaker James Cameron said this week that he anticipated Titan’s destiny days before the debris from the lost submarine was discovered, and that OceanGate was “warned” of “catastrophe.”
‘I felt in my bones what had happened,’ he told the BBC.
‘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 metres, heading for the bottom at 3800 metres.
‘Comms were lost and navigation was lost, and I said instantly, you can’t lose comms and navigation together, we’re now at an extreme catastrophic event, a highly energetic catastrophic event. And the first thing that popped to mind was an implosion.’
Cameron continued: ‘This entire week has 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, and their coastguard is out with airplanes.
‘I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position, and that’s exactly where they found it.’
He added: ‘We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings.’
