Titanic submersible: Canadian Coastguard prepares for search

A video game has gone viral on social media for the eerie similarities it shares with the missing Titan submersible.

In the game, called Iron Lung, released last year, a convict is sent to explore in a small submarine known by the same name. Due to the pressures in the ocean, the main hatch is welded shut and it loses all communication after submersion.

Rescue teams are currently racing against the clock to find the real-life submersible — which is operated by a video game controller — which disappeared on Sunday morning with five people on board.

The Titan submersible went down to explore the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean but lost contact with the surface vessel, called the Polar Prince, an hour and 45 minutes into the dive.

Many have taken to social media to note the similarities between the game, which is currently being made into a horror film, and the missing Titanic sub that has captured the world’s attention.

Game developer David Szymanski, writing on social media on Wednesday, said that he made Iron Lung as “nightmarish” as possible and thought the fact that real people were in a similar situation was “horrific”.

Mr Szymanski wrote on Twitter: “I definitely see the dark [humour] in this whole Titanic sub thing, it’s just… like, I made Iron Lung the most nightmarish thing I could think of, and knowing real people are in that situation right now is pretty horrific, even if it was their own bad decisions.”

David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled on the Titan last year, told the BBC that those on board the real-life sub are in a nightmare situation as they are trapped in the vessel because it is sealed shut by bolts from the outside.

He said: “There’s no way to escape, even if you rise to the surface by yourself. You cannot get out of the sub without a crew on the outside letting you out.”

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Billionaire businessman and explorer Hamish Harding and businessman Shahzada Dawood, who is from one of Pakistan’s richest families, are two of the passengers on board the Titanic voyage run by the firm OceanGate.

Those on social media have pointed out the fact that the vessel is steered by a video controller, albeit a modified version.

One user took to Twitter to point out that in Version 2.2 of Iron Lung, users can play the game from “beginning to end with a controller”.

Iron Lung has sold over 69 million copies across digital platforms, including YouTube, and a horror film based on the game is currently in production.

Fears are mounting for the missing submarine which ventured to examine the remains of the Titanic ship as it is thought those on board have just 24 hours of oxygen left.

The wreckage of the “unsinkable” ship, which hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, lies some 435 miles south of St John’s Newfoundland.

There were 2,200 passengers on board the ship but tragically, more than 1,500 died.

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