BOSTON — A deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic was found in pieces from a 'catastrophic implosion' that killed everyone aboard, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday (June 22), ending a multinational five-day search for the ves
BOSTON — A deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic was found in pieces from a"catastrophic implosion" that killed everyone aboard, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday , ending a multinational five-day search for the vessel.
Five major fragments of the 6.7m Titan were located in the debris field left from its disintegration, including the vessel's tail cone and two sections of the pressure hull, Coast Guard officials said. No mention was made of whether human remains were sighted.
Rescue teams from several countries had spent days scanning thousands of square miles of open seas with planes and ships for any sign of the Titan. The buoys had picked up some sounds on Tuesday and Wednesday that temporarily offered hope that the Titan was still intact and that its occupants were alive and trying to communicate by banging on the hull.
Robotic craft on the ocean floor will continue to gather evidence, Mr Mauger said, but it was not clear whether recovering the victims' remains will be possible given the nature of the accident and the extreme conditions at those depths. The undersea expedition to the wreck, which OceanGate has been operating since 2021, cost US$250,000 per person, according to the company's website.
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