The company behind the submersible excursion believes in a statement that all five occupants have died. Parts of the “Titan” were previously discovered.
The search for the missing “Titan” submersible comes to a tragic end. The company behind the submersible excursion believes a statement that all five occupants died. The US Coast Guard also declared the passengers dead and expresses its deepest condolences to the victims’ families, spokesman John Mauger said in Boston on Thursday. According to the US Coast Guard, the wreckage found near the wreck of the “Titanic” belongs to the missing submersible “Titan”. This proves that there is no more chance of survival for the missing five.
The Coast Guard had previously announced that a diving robot had encountered a “debris field” in the area of operation. The information would be analyzed, he said. The submersible has been missing since Sunday morning (local time). The “Titan” had five people on board on the way to the wreckage of the “Titanic” that sank in 1912 at about 3800 meters deep. About an hour and 45 minutes into the dive, contact with the mother ship was lost.
In the operational area, about 700 kilometers south of the Canadian island of Newfoundland, US and Canadian teams began a full-scale search both on the surface water and in the depths of the ocean. Ships, aircraft, remotely controlled underwater vehicles, diving robots and other equipment were used.
Previously, a ship salvage specialist was already convinced that the debris field discovered came from the missing submersible. In conversations with the BBC and Sky News on Thursday, David Mearns referred to statements made by the chairman of the Explorers Club in a WhatsApp group. The explorers are united in the association, and two inmate “Titans” are also members.
Mearns said the submersible’s so-called landing structure and aft cover can be seen. The hull has yet to be found, but “two very important parts of the whole system” that would not have been discovered had the submersible not crashed, Mearns added. Initially, there was no independent confirmation of this. The US Coast Guard had previously announced that a submersible had found a debris field in the area near the wreckage of the “Titanic”. Experts are now evaluating the information, the official tweeted without giving further information.