Experts suspect vessel hit by a ‘catastrophic implosion’ as it descended to Titanic wreck
The announcement marked a heartbreaking end to a giant international air and sea search for the sub and its crew. The 22ft sub went missing on Sunday, one hour and 45 minutes into its scheduled 11-hour dive.
Those aboard the submersible were British adventurer Hamish Harding ; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul Henri Nargeoloet ; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman; and 61-year-old American Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operated the lost sub.
A vehicle from the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic was the first to reach the seabed on Thursday morning, the Coast Guard said, joined later by another from the French ship L’Atalante. There had also been no further reports of “banging” noises picked up on Tuesday night and Wednesday by sonar buoys dropped by Canadian military aircraft, unidentified sounds which are now believed to have been unconnected.
Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist and lecturer in marine biology at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, told the Associated Press that the Titan’s disappearance highlighted the danger and uncertainties of deep-sea tourism.
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