The debris found by a robot this Thursday would be from the Titan. This is how an expert in diving and friend of the disappeared assures the BBC. This is David Mearns, who explained to the chain that the debris includes “a landing gear and a rear cover of the submersible.” Mearns has assured the BBC that the president of the Explorers Club (who is connected to the diving and salvage community), has been the one to provide you with this new information.
OceanGate, the company that owns the Titan, has announced that the five passengers of the submersible “unfortunately they have passed away” according to a company statement.
The remains of debris have been found by a Robot from the Horizon Arctic, a Canadian commercial ship that arrived last night at the site of the Titanic wreck. It can be used to retrieve items from the bottom of the ocean.
The US Coast Guard has announced early this afternoon that a remote-controlled robot has discovered a debris field near the search area for the submersible heading for the ‘Titanic’. The authorities are “evaluating that data”, as they have tweeted this Thursday.
EThis news of the discovery of the debris comes just when the remaining oxygen has run out. The experts had established 7:08 a.m. local time (1:08 p.m. peninsular time in Spain) this Thursday as the approximate threshold at which the five people traveling aboard the Titan would run out of oxygen. The submarine disappeared on Sunday and, without any opening, the margin of survival on board is estimated at 96 hours.
Until now, the only clue that there is some underwater noises of which the origin has not been determined. On board the Titan are the founder of the company that organizes these expeditions, Stockton Rush, the British businessman and adventurer Hamish Harding, the French explorer Paul Henry Nargeolet, the Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
The submersible disappeared about 700 kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland. She lost contact with the surface less than two hours after starting the dive and experts estimated that the oxygen on board could last up to 96 hours, in the best of the scenarios raised in the last few hours.
The luxury liner ‘Titanic’ is located at a depth of 3,800 meters under the sea surface. Its shipwreck occurred in 1912 and resulted in more than 1,500 deaths, although the remains of the wreck were not located until 1985.
