US Coast Guard officials are expected to provide a final update Sunday on the search for the missing Titan submersible, an effort that ended in tragedy when searchers found wreckage on the ocean floor near the wreck. of the Titanic, leading them to believe that all five. crew member has died following a catastrophic implosion.
The update is expected at 4 pm
This is a developing story. Previous coverage is below.
After the death of the five crew members of the Titan submersible was confirmed on Thursday, almost a mile from the world’s most famous shipwreck, the Titanic, the big question is how did the events occur and how were the last minutes of the scientists and tourists who were inside?
Questions are raised as shocking details of this world-shaking tragedy are revealed, and an expert explains what the dramatic end of the five occupants of the Ocean Gate company submersible in North Atlantic waters might have been like.
According to the first hypotheses, the strong pressure from the depths and a failure in the Titan’s structure could be the cause of this tragedy.
Authorities confirmed that due to the depth where the capsule was located, it would have imploded, causing the death of those on board.
THE PROBABLE LACK OF STRUCTURE
For a rescue expert, this is what could have happened according to the information released by the authorities.
“The pilot could know information that this system gave him and, if it gave him any failure, it would alert him to some problem; he would simply stop the dive and they would go up and nothing would happen… but obviously what surprised them was a collapse and a catastrophic outcome,” said Andrés Tremante, a FIU professor and rescue expert.
Right now millions of people wonder what the last minutes of the 5 crew members and tourists aboard the 22-foot-long submersible could have been like.
“They didn’t even know that the capsule had imploded and that unfortunately they were going down and while they were going down the pressure obviously increases, the whole structure simply collapsed and with them inside, unfortunately, that’s what happened,” Tremante added.
The five victims are an aeronautical businessman, a French scientist, another Pakistani businessman and his 19-year-old son and the director of the company Ocean Gate Expeditions itself. For the entire community of rescuers in the world, what happened has been a severe blow.
“A lot of sadness because in the world of search and rescue you never lose hope, you are always there doing your best to get the survivors and rescue them alive.”
A local vehicle made by the Pelagic Research Services company on Cape Cod was in charge of finding the remains of the submersible; Now the challenge is to locate the remains of the 5 victims.
