Expedition operator OceanGate released statement on Thursday paying tribute to crew members after ‘major pieces of debris’ found near Titanic wreck
All five people on-board the missing submersible Titan are believed to have died in a “catastrophic implosion”. The operating company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday paying tribute to those on the lost vessel.
The US coast guard said on Thursday the found debris is “consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber” in the submersible “Even the most reliable technology can fail, and therefore accidents will happen. With the growth in deep-sea tourism, we must expect more incidents like this,” he said.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Carl Hartsville said the debris that was found is some 500m feet from the Titanic when he said was asked how likely it was that the submersible collided with the wreck.“It is a smooth bottom there. To my knowledge and anything I’ve seen there’s no Titanic wreckage in that area.”
“We’ll continue to work and continue to search the area down there, but I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time.”“Five major pieces of debris” found by authorities indicated they were from the Titan, including a nose cone, the front end of the pressure hull and the back end of the pressure hull, a salvage expert for the US navy said.
This is an extremely sad time for our dedicated employees who are exhausted and grieving deeply over this loss. The entire OceanGate family is deeply grateful for the countless men and women from multiple organisations of the international community who expedited wide-ranging resources and have worked so very hard on this mission.
Söhnlein told BBC News: “I know that our protocol for lost comms is for the pilot to surface the sub. From the beginning I always thought that’s probably what Stockton would have done. In which case it becomes very difficult to find the sub because the surface ship wouldn’t have known it was coming up and wouldn’t have known where to look.
Mr Mearns said the president of the club is “directly connected” to the ships in the search area and told the WhatsApp group about the details of the debris.
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