On the occasion of the thriller developing in the Atlantic about the missing Titan submarine and the anxiety about the fate of the 5 missing passengers, in the last few hours an episode of the Simpsons television series, released 17 years ago and now characterized as… prophetic, has gone viral!

In the episode, Homer and his supposed father were exploring a shipwreck in the depths of the sea in atomic, mini-submarines.

However, Homer gets confused, gets lost alone in the darkness of the ocean and runs out of oxygen…

In fact, Mike Rice, screenwriter and former head of production on “The Simpsons” had himself dived three times with the Titan in the dark depths of the Atlantic.

“I went into the sub and in the back of my mind I was like, ‘well, I might never get out of this thing’, that’s always in the back of your mind,” he told the BBC.