Each end of the pressure hull was found in a different place, according to Paul Hankins, US Navy director of Salvage Operations and Ocean Engineering. “This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Mauger said.įive different major pieces of debris from the submersible were found in the area Thursday morning, officials said. The tail cone and other debris from the missing submersible were found by a remotely operated vehicle about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic. What is a catastrophic implosion? Here's what we know about the Titan submersible disaster REUTERS/Brian Snyder Brian Snyder/Reuters Rear Admiral John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander speaks during a press conference updating about the search of the missing OceanGate Expeditions submersible, which is carrying five people to explore the wreck of the sunken Titanic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 22, 2023. Sunday, June 18: ‘Discover something truly extraordinary’ These were the unsettling days since the Titanic submersible’s demise: In addition to Harding, the other passengers on board were Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO and founder Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a renowned Titanic expert with decades of exploring experience. The announcement ended a desperate international search and rescue effort that captured global attention.

John Mauger announced Thursday, four days after the craft vanished in the vicinity of the 111-year-old wreckage of the Titanic in the depths of the North Atlantic. The next day, the submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing all five people on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, on the mother ship Polar Prince. The dive “is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023” because of the particularly harsh winter, Harding wrote last Saturday – one day after the expedition departed from St. The Titanic disaster led to a rethink of international regulations. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File) OceanGate Expeditions/AP/File On Monday, June 19, 2023, a rescue operation was underway deep in the Atlantic Ocean in search of the technologically advanced submersible vessel carrying five people to document the wreckage of the Titanic, the iconic ocean liner that sank more than a century earlier. FILE - This undated photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible.

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