Starlink and Elon Musk Have Nothing to Do With the Missing Titanic Submarine

Elon Musk is once again involved in a submarine-related, time-sensitive international news event. This time, one of the details involved in the increasingly absurd and endlessly fascinating search for OceanGate's Titan submersible that is lost on a billionaire's expedition to the Titanic is the fact that OceanGate's boat has SpaceX's Starlink internet.

The Starlink internet subplot had less frenzy around it Tuesday than the "submarine-is-controlled-by-a-Logitech-controller" subplot and the "billionaire's stepson went to the Blink-182 show" subplot. But a Snopes article Wednesday focused on the fact that OceanGate uses Starlink for internet access at sea, and people have made the nonsensical jump that, because Titan lost communication with its above-sea support vessel, Starlink (and thus, Elon Musk), might somehow be to blame for the fact that the submarine is missing.