YouTuber MrBeast has claimed he was invited on the doomed Titan submersible that imploded on its way down to see the Titanic.
MrBeast shared a text in a Twitter post on Sunday that appears to show that he was asked to be on the vessel for a mission to see the famous wreck.
‘I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no,’ he wrote. ‘Kind of scary that I could have been on it.’
The Titan sub vanished shortly after it launched on Sunday, sparking a days long search for the vessel and five people on board.
On Thursday, after their 96-hour supply of oxygen was believed to had run out, pieces of the sub were found on the ocean floor, leading officials to believe it had ‘catastrophically imploded.’
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush was killed aboard the American company’s submersible, along with prominent British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, British adventurer Hamish Harding, and French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The Titanic Five – who paid $250,000 each for the fatal ride – were killed instantly when the submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ just 1,600ft from the bow of the wrecked ocean liner, the US Coast Guard announced on Thursday.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, claimed on Sunday it was scary to think he could have been one of those passengers.
The 25-year-old is the world’s richest YouTuber, with an estimated net worth of more than $500million.
