OceanGate reported on Thursday that it believes all five passengers on its missing Titan submersible have"sadly been lost."
"The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," said Rear Adm. John Mauger of the Coast Guard. "Essentially we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the Titan," said Paul Hankins, director of salvage operations and ocean engineering with the U.S. Navy."The initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull. We then found a large debris field. Within that large debris field, we found the front end bell of the pressure hull. That was the first indication that there was a catastrophic event.
British businessman Hamish Harding was also in the submersible, as well as French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.The search operationThe submersible lost contact with a surface-based vessel less than two hours into its voyage on June 18. On Wednesday, officials described the search area as twice the size of Connecticut.
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