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Allegedly five crew members of the Titan submarine lost on the way out to sea were killed. giantaccording to OceanGate Inc, the operator of the mission.
“These people are true explorers with a distinctive spirit of adventure and a deep passion to explore and protect the world’s oceans,” the company said in a statement Thursday. “Our hearts go out to these five souls and each of their family members during this tragic time. We regret the loss of life and the joy they bring to everyone they meet.”
The story of the missing ship, known as the Titan, sparked worldwide fascination as an international fleet of ships and aircraft desperately explored an area of the North Atlantic twice the size of Connecticut. Rescue teams raced around the clock as Titan’s estimated 96-hour oxygen supply dwindled to zero.
The US Coast Guard earlier this week said unidentified sounds were detected during a search, but the sounds could not be linked to the missing ship.
Aboard the Titan are Hamish Harding, 58, from England, founder of investment firm Action Group and an avid adventurer; French Maritime Expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77 years; Stockton Rush, 61, CEO of Everett, Washington-based OceanGate Inc, which led the expedition; And shahzada dawood48 years, and Sulman Dawood19, father and son from one of Pakistan’s most prominent families.
Harding holds three Guinness World Records, including the longest time spent crossing the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, in a single dive, and the fastest navigation on Earth across the North and South Poles by plane.
He Titans, a 6.7 meter long vessel made of carbon fiber and titanium, is designed to carry one pilot and four crew members to a maximum depth of 4,000. According to her website From OceanGate, the onboard system is able to track the health of the crew and provide “early warning detection to the pilot sufficient time to abort the descent and safely return to the surface.”
The Coast Guard confirms the death of the Titan’s crew
The United States Coast Guard offered a press conference this Thursday, having previously reported finding parts from the missing sub.
At the conference, it was pointed out that the Titan submarine may have exploded in the waters of the North Atlantic and this event left no survivors.
It is suspected that the explosion occurred near the wreck of the Titanic, which is an area the crew is exploring.
OceanGate has done chronicle of the sinking of the titanic and the underwater ecosystem that surrounds it through an annual trip starting in 2021.
The Coast Guard indicated they had informed the crew’s families about this incident.
It is estimated that Titan has a supply of air to breathe for four days when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic, but experts have emphasized that it was an imprecise start and could be extended if passengers take steps to conserve breathable air.
What Happened to the Titan OceanGate Submarine?
Last week, June 18, the company OceanGate Expeditions reported that they had lost communication with the Titan submarine, on which five people were traveling: Pakistani businessmen Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British explorer Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
From that day on, the US Coast Guard began a search operation with Canadian assistance to locate the submarine.
Rescue teams were working around the clock, as the submarine had an estimated 96 hours of oxygen for the passengers to survive.
After several days of searching, the Coast Guard has confirmed it this Thursday the submarine may explode and there will be no survivorsafter finding some parts.
The remains of the device were recovered by a remote controlled vehicle (ROV) operated by the Canadian ship Arctic Horizon and later specialists determined that “consistent with a catastrophic explosion”namely rupture and collapse caused by greater pressure from the outside.
According to underwater expert Paul Hanken, “five main parts” were discovered which were recognized as “Titanic remains”. The first thing it found was the “nasal cone, which is outside the pressure chamber”.
“We found a bell at the front of the pressure chamber and this was the first indication that disaster occurred shortly after,” he said.
With information from AP and EFE.
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