Jake, also known as Dallmyd, took a short ride in the same OceanGate sub that was found in pieces days after it went dark on a mission to see the Titanic wreckage 13,000 feet below the ocean surface.
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“If my dive wasn’t canceled it could’ve been me inside that submarine today,” Jake said in a video released on Friday.
The YouTuber, who boarded the $250,000 trip free of charge, is heartbroken over the deaths of Sunday’s crew, but decided to share a more exciting side of the dangerous excursion.
He included pictures and recordings of himself with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who would eventually die inside his creation.
Rush boarded the sub for the last time on Sunday alongside British billionaire Hamish Harding, French Navy Veteran Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
All of the passengers were declared dead after the US Coast Guard discovered debris belonging to the sub during a desperate three-day search.
In Jake’s video, he gave a close look at the cramped conditions of the cabin and zoomed in on the infamous video game controller that was used to control the 22-foot vessel.
“First time in a submarine, it looks really cool in here,” Jake said smiling excitedly in the now-disturbing footage.
He later added narration over the video and said: “Keep in mind you’re seeing the exact same submersible that imploded and killed five people.”
Jake recorded the sub being submerged in the water while attached to a platform with divers around to assist with the plunge.
The crew of passengers murmured and laughed while the cramped ship nose dived deep into the ocean.
However, it wasn’t long until Rush began to lose communication with the mother ship, and said that fog was rolling in which made diving conditions too dangerous.
“I don’t know the particular game plan for this dive. We never left the platform,” he said.
“If the fog didn’t roll in and cancel the dive, who knows, maybe we would’ve left that platform, and maybe we would’ve imploded.”
While it’s unknown how the dive could’ve ended that day, Jake said he feels like he dodged a bullet, and is heartbroken for the families of the killed divers.
“I didn’t know these people too well, but they treated me very nicely, and I lost a few friends,” he said.
In the caption for the video, Jake clarified that he did not pay for a ticket as he was asked to share his experience with his 13.4million YouTube subscribers.
HORROR CRASH
A deep-sea robot sub found five major pieces of debris of Titan two miles beneath the surface on Thursday after a three-day frantic hunt for the vessel.
Search crews had been desperately looking for the vessel in the Atlantic after it lost communication with just 96 hours of life support.
The sub failed to resurface later that afternoon – with its final “ping” to mothership Polar Prince placing the sub directly above the ruins.
In a haunting interview last year, Mr. Rush told how his main worry was that the sub – steered by a gaming controller – would get trapped under the water.
He also claimed there should be “limits” to safety precautions.
“You know, at some point, safety is just a pure waste,” he told CBS.
“I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.
“I think I can do this just as safely while breaking the rules.”
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