BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday said that “presumed human remains” were found in the debris field of the Titan submersible that imploded.
Pelagic Research Services, which led the deep sea recovery effort, said in a statement that it had “successfully completed offshore operations” and was in the process of demobilization, which marks the end of a mission and a return to the base of operations. The company would not confirm that the debris belonged to the Titan, saying that the investigation was continuing, and referred questions to the U.S. Coast Guard, which did not immediately return a request for comment.
The announcement comes about a week after the Coast Guard said that an underwater robot had discovered debris on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean near the bow of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg,The Titan, a submersible owned by OceanGate Expeditions, lost contact with the ship that launched it about 75 minutes into a dive on June 18.
Officials with OceanGate identified the five onboard the Titan as Stockton Rush, the company’s CEO; Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleman Dawood; Hamish Harding; and Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Officials said a remotely operated vehicle searching the Atlantic Ocean sea floor found parts of the Titan that indicated that the vessel had imploded.At least 46 people successfully traveled on the OceanGate submersible to the Titanic wreck in 2021 and 2022, according to company letters filed in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, the
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