Canadian Coast Guard
‘Titan’ Debris Recovery Complete – Rescuers Find ‘Presumed Remains’
The wreckage of the Titan submersible is unloaded at the Canadian Coast Guard pier
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The wreckage of the imploded submersible “Titan” has been recovered. The Coast Guard may have also brought the mortal remains of the inmates ashore. But until there is certainty, further investigations are necessary.
A good week after the “Titan” disappeared in the North Atlantic, the wreckage of the crashed submersible has been brought ashore. TV pictures showed how the shattered parts were loaded onto a low-loader by the ship “Horizon Arctic” at a jetty in St. John’s in eastern Canada on the island of Newfoundland.
The US Coast Guard also said that after consultations with investigative authorities from international partners, the evidence should be brought to a US port on a US Coast Guard ship, where further analysis and testing could take place.
Search and rescue operation of the “Titan” “extremely risky”
The evidence would “provide important insights into the cause of this tragedy,” said the head of the US investigation, Jason Neubauer. “There is still much work to be done to unravel all the factors that led to Titan’s catastrophic loss.” The investigations are necessary so that such a tragedy does not happen again.
The search and rescue operation was “extremely risky,” said the spokesman for the New York company Pelagic Research, which owns the remote-controlled rescue vehicle Odysseus. “It was extremely stressful and exhausting for the team, who worked around the clock with almost no sleep for 10 days,” Jeff Mahoney told AFP.
“Titan” probably imploded – occupants possibly dead immediately
The submersible went missing a week ago on Sunday after setting out to explore the Titanic wreck. The US Coast Guard had started a large-scale search around 700 kilometers south of Newfoundland with the help of Canadian forces in particular. Debris from the vehicle was discovered just 500 meters from the bow of the “Titanic” wreck. Everything indicates that the hull of the boat gave way to the enormous water pressure and imploded. The “Titanic” lies at a depth of around 3800 meters on the seabed. The luxury liner sank in 1912.
The five occupants were believed to have died instantly. On board were the head of the operating company, OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, the British entrepreneur and adventurer Hamish Harding, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, and the French “Titanic”. -Expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The Canadian ship “Horizon Arctic”, which is now lifting the debris of the “Titan” out of the water, was also instrumental in the search for the submersible. It had used a remote-controlled diving robot, which eventually came across the wreckage of the “Titan”. The US Coast Guard initiated extensive investigations and, according to its own statements, is also working with international partners, including the Canadian Traffic Safety Authority.