PICTURED: The diving mothership Titanic, which plunged five men in a doomed dive, returns to shore in Newfoundland – as Canadian transport officials launch a safety investigation
- Polar Prince arrived at the port of St. John’s in Canada early Saturday
- The Titan submarine mothership returned with five fewer people than it left
- Officials are now investigating why the submarine imploded while diving to the wreck of the Titanic
The support ship that launched the doomed Titanic submersible has returned to Canadian port after the submarine’s disastrous implosion that killed all five men on board during a dive to the Titanic wreck.
The Polar Prince arrived in St. John’s Harbor, Newfoundland on Saturday morning and docked around 8:15 a.m. local time as the sun broke through the morning haze.
Crew members wearing orange hard hats could be seen on the deck of the ship, which returned to port with five fewer souls on board than the 24 with which it sailed eight days earlier.
Recovery efforts are halted as the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) announced it would be conducting a safety investigation into the deadly deep-water vessel implosion.
The Polar Prince, the main supply vessel for the Titan submersible, arrives at the port of St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada, on Saturday
Polar Prince is a decommissioned Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker now owned by Miawpukek Horizon Maritime Service Ltd and chartered by extreme tourism company OceanGate as a dive support vessel for Titan.
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush died aboard the company’s submersible last weekend along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, British adventurer Hamish Harding and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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