Canadian authorities began investigating the Titan’s accident on Saturday. This private dive boat disappeared near the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic with five people on board.
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) “has begun the safety investigation (…) into the fatal incident involving the ship Polar Prince,” the Canadian ship from which the small tourism submarine launched, its President, Kathy, announced Fox announced on Saturday.
Such an investigation usually takes between 18 and 24 months, but the BST will try to “move faster because we know everyone wants answers, especially the families,” she said.
A TSB team has arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador and “is investigating the scene of the accident and the wreck site, interviewing witnesses and gathering all relevant information,” she said. added.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is the agency responsible for investigating air, rail and sea accidents with the goal of improving transportation safety. No position is taken on civil or criminal liability.
A second, separate investigation was launched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Its investigators have “begun to investigate the circumstances leading to the deaths of the five people on board the submersible,” said Kent Osmond, an RCMP officer in Newfoundland and Labrador, on Saturday.
The latter must make it possible to assess “whether or not a full investigation by the RCMP is warranted,” he pointed out, specifying that “such an investigation will only be conducted when our examination of the circumstances indicates that federal criminal statutes or state statutes.” available.” may have been violated”.
The US Coast Guard announced Thursday that the five passengers on the Titan, a research-tourism submersible that disappeared in the Atlantic on Sunday, died in the ship’s “catastrophic implosion”.