Quest for the Titan.GETTY
A secret US Navy underwater sensor network, detected to track the presence of hostile vessels under the sea, detected “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” in the area where the Titan submersible disappeared on Sunday and at the same time. time in which communications with the bathyscaphe were lost last Sunday.
At the time, the system operators were unaware of any accidents, but shortly thereafter the data went to Rear Admiral John Mauger, who was in charge of the search for the Titan. In those first moments of Sunday it was considered “irresponsible” to leave the five people trapped for dead with only that information.
The media that have released this news, the first of which was The Wall Street Journal, have not been able to specify to what extent the search team was aware of this information or why it was hidden from public opinion until the end. .
Mauger denied that the implosion had been detected at a press conference on Thursday night, in which the discovery of the remains of the Titan was explained. However, noises did make themselves known during the search, some of them in the form of beatings every thirty minutes, which raised hopes for a few hours that the castaways were still alive.
Now it has been concluded that those sounds were not related to the Titan, but probably to other ships present in the area or to animals or natural noises from the ocean floor.