TikToker claims shark tracking app may have accidentally found missing OceanGate submarine

Meera Jacka
TikToker claims shark tracking app may have accidentally found missing OceanGate submarine

The search for the missing OceanGate Titan remains ongoing, as its passengers slowly run out of oxygen. However, one TikToker claims a shark-tracking app may hold the answers.

The OceanGate Titan went missing four days ago after losing communications during its descent to the Titanic.

While search teams race to locate the submersible, the internet has been going wild with theories as to what happened and where the Titan currently resides.

Now, one TikToker claims he may have accidentally stumbled across a way to locate the Titan.

Posted to the account ‘sqayl’, the TikToker theorizes that a free shark tracking app called Ocearch may have unintentionally stumbled upon the submarine’s location.

Two of the apps tracked sharks, Andromache and Simon, triggered pings on the app at locations that did not match their expected “patterns”.

“This will inevitably get deleted by Ocearch,” sqayl claimed, explaining that the sharks were unlikely to have swum to the coordinates they were detected at.

Andromache the shark
Ocearch pinged Andromache near the location of the Titanic, in what the app assumed to be a glitch

“The statistical likelihood of both of these sharks swimming to the exact same location where the Titanic sunk and Titan the missing submarine is located [sic] is an imaginary number that doesn’t exist,” Sqayl claims in the video.

Sqayl goes on to further explain in the comments of his TikTok that he believes “The shark tracking [app] accidentally pinged the submarine somehow.”

TikToker claims app pinged two sharks at the exact location of the Titanic
Andromache and Simon both pinged at the “exact location” of the Titanic

Pleading for someone to reach out and ask Ocearch for the coordinates, Sqayl remained adamant that the pings were not “glitches”.

“Wow, that ping stopped at -226 ft too. Crazy as hell man, you might be onto something,” one person commented. Others were more skeptical of the theory, with one TikTok user writing, “You, in fact, did not find the missing sub.”

However, it seems the pings have since been deleted by the app, leaving Sqayl’s theory to be left unverifiable.

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About The Author

Meera Jacka is a Senior Entertainment and Trending News Writer on the Australian Dexerto team. She completed her undergrad at Curtin University with a double major in professional writing and publishing and creative writing, graduating with Honours in creative writing. A horror fan with a guilty pleasure in reality TV, Meera covers all things entertainment and trending news, with the occasional film and gaming content thrown in the mix. Contact Meera at meera.jacka@dexerto.com