06/29/2023 01:46 (act. 06/29/2023 01:46)
Titan passenger remains discovered ©APA/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
According to the US Coast Guard, “suspicious human remains” were discovered in the wreckage of the submersible “Titan” that imploded near the wreck “Titanic”. US experts will now conduct an official analysis of the body parts that were “carefully secured in the wreckage at the crash site,” the Coast Guard said on Wednesday. All five occupants of the “Titan” died in the crash in the North Atlantic.
Previously, the salvage of the wreckage of the “Titan” had been completed. Television footage showed the shattered parts being unloaded from a ship onto a truck at a dock in St. John’s in eastern Canada.
The US Coast Guard also said that, after consultations with investigative officials from international partners, evidence must be brought to a US port on a US Coast Guard vessel, where further analysis and testing can take place. The evidence “will provide important insights into the cause of this tragedy,” said US investigation chief Jason Neubauer. However, there is still much to be done “to understand the factors that led to this catastrophic loss of Titan” and to help “so that a tragedy like this does not happen again”.
The search and rescue operation was “extremely risky,” said a spokesman for New York firm Pelagic Research, owner of the Odysseus remotely controlled rescue vehicle. “It was extremely stressful and exhausting for the team, who worked day and night with almost no sleep for 10 days,” Jeff Mahoney told AFP.
The “Titan” left on June 18 with five occupants for the sinking of the “Titanic”. After nearly two hours, contact with the escort ship was broken. After a four-day search, a diving robot found debris at a depth of 3,800 meters on the sea floor, which was the remains of the “Titan”. According to the US Coast Guard, the submersible imploded under the enormous pressure of the water.
The five occupants are believed to have died instantly. On board were the head of the operating company, OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, British businessman and adventurer Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman. , and the French “Titanic” -Specialist Paul-Henri Nargeolet.