Amid the mangled wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible that horrifically imploded two years ago, investigators found a single SD card that miraculously survived intact — and still works.

The discovery was flagged last week by science communicator Scott Manley, who has extensively covered the underwater tragedy.

According to documents from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation shared by Manley — available in full here — a recovery team found a camera with a titanium casing containing the SD card. The camera device model was listed as a SubC Rayfine Mk2 Benthic Camera, which is rated up to a depth of 6,000 meters, or nearly 20,000 feet.

While the camera’s lens was shattered, and some of the electronic hardware inside was rattled around and disconnected, the SD card

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