“We are grateful for the rapid mobilization of the submarine search and rescue experts and we thank all the agencies, as well as their staff for their role,” he explained, adding that, however, the collection of information will continue to determine the causes and time of the accident.
In addition, the five crew members who were inside are presumed dead. John Mauger, commander of the First District of the Coast Guard, has explained that a robot has found the remains 500 meters from the Titanic. “We will notify the families of all information and offer our condolences.” All five passengers would have died instantly.
Mauger has added that this a case “incredibly complex” and that the teams are still working but that they will retire in the next few hours.
Mauger has also pointed out at a press conference that there is apparently no connection between the submarine and the noises that several Canadian aircraft had picked up at the bottom of the sea in recent hours, CNN has picked up.
“We have medical staff on site, we have other technicians on site and we will begin to demobilize personnel and boats from the area in the course of the next 24 hours,” he detailed at a press conference.
A diving expert and friend of the passengers aboard the Titan, David Mearns, had previously pointed out to the British BBC that the remains located by the Coast Guard were a landing piece and “a rear deck of the submersible”.
“Unfortunately they have passed away”
OceanGate, the company that owns the Titan, had already announced that the five passengers of the submersible “unfortunately they have passed away” according to a company statement.
“Our hearts go out to their five souls and each member of their families during this tragic time,” the company said in a statement, adding that the five Titan passengers shared “a great passion for exploration and the protection of the world’s oceans.
On board the submersible were the founder of the company that organized 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 experts estimated the possibility of survival of the five passengers aboard the submarine in up to 96 hours, although they had established 7:08 am local time (1:08 pm peninsular time in Spain) on Thursday as the threshold.
the submersible ddisappeared 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.
He luxury liner ‘Titanic’ lies 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.
