Georgia Subway faces backlash over ‘distasteful’ sign about Titan: ‘Our subs don’t implode’

Georgia Subway faces backlash over ‘distasteful’ sign about Titan: ‘Our subs don’t implode’

A Subway restaurant in Georgia has come under fire for its sign, which references the Titan sub which imploded killing five people onboard as it descended toward the Titanic.

The store in Rincon, Georgia, a suburb of Savannah, had a sign read, “Our subs don’t implode,” WTOC 11 reported. A store manager told the news outlet that the sign has since been removed.

“We have been in contact with the franchise about this matter and made it clear that this kind of comment has no place in our business,” a statement from Subway to Fox News Digital said. “The sign has since been removed.”

The submersible carrying five people to the Titanic imploded near the site of the shipwreck and killed everyone on board, authorities said, bringing a tragic end to a saga that included an urgent around-the-clock search and a worldwide vigil for the missing vessel.

The sliver of hope that remained for finding the five men alive was wiped away, when the submersible’s 96-hour supply of oxygen was expected to run out. The Coast Guard announced that debris had been found roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic in North Atlantic waters.

After the craft was reported missing, the U.S. Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data and found an anomaly that was “consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior Navy official told The Associated Press.

OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the submersible, said in a statement that all five people in the vessel, including CEO and pilot Stockton Rush, “have sadly been lost.”

The others on board were two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.