According to the US Coast Guard, “suspected human remains” were discovered after the tragic accident involving the submarine “Titan”, which was supposed to take five people to the nearby “Titanic”.
US experts would now conduct an official analysis of the body parts that were “carefully secured in the wreckage at the scene of the accident,” the Coast Guard said on Wednesday. All five occupants of the “Titan” died in the accident in the North Atlantic.
Earlier, the salvage of the wreckage of the “Titan” was completed. Television footage showed the shattered parts of a ship being unloaded onto a flatbed trailer at a dock in St. John’s, eastern Canada.
Look for the cause of the accident
The US Coast Guard also said that after consultation with investigative authorities from international partners, the evidence should be taken to a US port on a US Coast Guard vessel for further analysis and testing. The evidence would provide “important insights into the cause of this tragedy,” said the head of the US investigation, Jason Neubauer. However, much remains to be done to understand the factors that led to Titan’s catastrophic loss and to ensure that a tragedy like this does not happen again.
Search and rescue operation “extremely risky”
The search and rescue operation was “extremely risky,” said a spokesman for New York company Pelagic Research, owner of the Odysseus remote-controlled rescue vehicle. “It was extremely stressful and exhausting for the team, who worked around the clock for 10 days and hardly slept,” Jeff Mahoney told AFP.
What happened?
The “Titan” departed on June 18 with five passengers to the wreck of the “Titanic”. After nearly two hours, contact with the escort vessel was lost. After four days of searching, a diving robot found debris on the seabed at a depth of 3800 meters, which were the remains of the “Titan”. According to the US Coast Guard, the submarine imploded under the enormous water pressure.
The five occupants were presumed to have died instantly. On board were the head of the operating company, OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, British entrepreneur and adventurer Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman. , and French “Titanic” expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
Source: Krone
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