James Cameron said he was sceptical when he heard OceanGate was making a deep-sea submersible with a composite carbon fibre and titanium hull. The safety record of OceanGate, and the ability of the Titan sub to withstand massive pressure at depths of more than 12,000ft, had been called into question in recent days, with industry experts and former passengers expressing concerns. A vehicle from the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic was the first to reach the seabed on Thursday morning, the Coast Guard said, joined later by another from the French ship L’Atalante.
The breakthrough in finding some of the remains of the Titan came from the deployment of deep-ocean ROVs for the first time on the fifth day of the search after their arrival by sea. “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” read the statement in part. OceanGate, the company that operated the submersible, released a statement confirming that the five passengers of the Titan have been “sadly lost”. The sub imploded,” Cameron told the Reuters news agency. “We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost. It found a sound “consistent with an implosion or explosion”.įilm director James Cameron said he knew the submersible was lost from the start of the four-day search, after his sources in the deep-sea exploration industry reported a “loud bang”. The navy analysed its acoustic data after the Titan was first reported lost. The US Navy has said it detected an “anomaly” that was likely the Titan’s fatal implosion, soon after the submersible went missing. Mauger said: “We’ll continue to work and continue to search the area, but I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time.” Search teams are unsure of recovering bodies of crew members aboard the sub. Paul Hankin, an undersea expert, said that rescuers found the sub’s nose cone and the total pressure chamber.
Five different pieces of debris signaled to experts that they had discovered the remains of the Titan sub.
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