Titan sub: Aussie influencer shocks with bizarre theory that passengers are still ALIVE

An Australian influencer stunned his fans on Saturday by revealing his bizarre theory about what happened to the passengers of the doomed OceanGate submersible.

Kurt Coleman, 25, posted a video to Instagram on Saturday claiming the sub’s five passengers may still be alive, after it was declared their vessel imploded.

‘There is a whole ‘nother world down there that has never been discovered. A mermaid got them and fully just took them into their world,’ he began.

‘This could actually happen because no one has seen the rest of the world under there. I fully believe mermaids exist and they could be smarter than us.

‘Sounds crazy but no one has discovered the ocean so it is crazy down there,’ he added.

Many of Coleman’s 100,000 followers quickly took to the comment section to express their thoughts on his unusual theory.

‘This sounds like a way nicer alternative to be honest,’ one fan wrote and another added: ‘No one’s discovered the ocean, it’s true’.

Meanwhile, Coleman’s theory ruffled the feathers of a few followers, with one sniping: ‘I legit screamed OMG when I saw this video’. 

However, the probability of Coleman’s theory being true is extremely unlikely, as wreckage of the ill-fated Titan submersible has been recovered.

Kurt Coleman, 25, posted a video to Instagram in which he claims the OceanGate Titan’s five passengers may still be alive, after it was declared the sub imploded. Pictured: OceanGate Titan submersible 

It appears to have imploded on Sunday, June 18, several hours into its ocean voyage to explore the ruins of the Titanic.

All five passengers, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, were declared dead in the aftermath.

Coleman has developed a reputation for his controversial comments and back in 2022 he lashed out at an Australian pop culture Twitter account.

‘There is a whole ‘nother world down there that has never been discovered. A mermaid got them and fully just took them into their world,’ Kurt told his fans

‘This could actually happen because no one has seen the rest of the world under there. I fully believe mermaids exist and they could be smarter than us,’ Coleman added

The Instagram favourite was outraged when the @AusCrave account described him as a ‘former Gold Coast micro influencer’.

‘Babe I started the whole entire [influencer] industry in Australia,’ Coleman objected in an Instagram post.

In a lengthy caption accompanying the post, Kurt wrote, ‘there was NO ONE known through social media for purely being themselves in Australia before me’. 

Kurt rose to fame in 2016 on social media as a teenager thanks to his confident and racy social media posts.

The probability of Coleman’s theory being true is extremely unlikely, as wreckage of the ill-fated Titan submersible has been recovered. All five passengers, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush (pictured) were declared dead in the aftermath

Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood both died in the Titan tragedy 

(From left) Paul-Henry Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, and Hamish Harding died in the disaster