Navy were still analyzing the sounds, which one expert described as "banging noises." Various underwater search efforts were moved to the location of the noise to discover its source, but the Coast Guard said efforts "yielded negative results" up until news of the debris field.Īs of Wednesday, underwater acoustic experts from the U.S. The Coast Guard said that maritime surveillance planes operated by Canada detected underwater sounds late Tuesday, then again on Wednesday.
The Coast Guard said that the debris field was uncovered by an ROV deployed by the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic, which had reached the sea floor early Thursday.Įxperts say the seabed around the Titanic is littered with bits of the wreck, which shows tell-tale signs of its age, including the effects of an iron-eating bacteria. Coast Guard base in Boston, Mass., on Wednesday, where rescue teams raced to find a missing submersible with five people on board.Įarlier Thursday, rescue teams hunting for the missing submersible uncovered a field of debris near the site of the wrecked ocean liner, the Coast Guard said. When asked about the likelihood of recovering the bodies, Mauger said he does not have an answer and noted the "incredibly unforgiving environment" of the sea floor. Coast Guard officials said they will begin to withdraw vessels from the scene over the next 24 hours but added that remote operations will continue on the sea floor. Titan set out on its journey Sunday morning and lost contact with its support ship less than two hours later. OceanGate, the company that developed the submersible, said officials "now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost," And I hope that this discovery provides some solace during this difficult time." I can only imagine what this has been like for them. "Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families. "The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," he said. John Mauger said the debris found by a remotely operated vehicle on the sea floor near the wreck of the Titanic – roughly 900 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts – indicated the crew and passengers likely died from the failure of the craft.
Speaking at a news conference in Boston, Rear Adm. All five passengers aboard the missing Titan submersible have died following a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel," the U.S.
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