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YouTube star, Mr Beast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, has taken to Twitter revealing he was invited on the Titan – the Titanic sub that vanished a week ago with five passengers on board.
The YouTube megastar with more than 162 million current followers and has the largest subscriber base of any creator on YouTube, per CNN, shared what appeared to be a screenshot of an invitation on his phone.
"I was invited earlier this month to ride the Titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it," 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 pic.twitter.com/bQUnaRiczA
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) June 25, 2023
Five passengers were on board the Titan on its way to visit the wreckage of the Titanic before it disappeared, resulting in a search-and-rescue operation that captivated the world before oxygen ran out.
The lives of OceantGate CEO Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, were lost, however, after the small sub suffered a "catastrophic implosion" in the ocean depths.
An investigation into the implosion is ongoing.
UPDATE | OceanGate co-founder hits back after James Cameron's comments on 'unheeded' sub warnings
