The US Coast Guard said that further wreckage and perhaps human remains had been retrieved from a privately owned submersible that catastrophically failed in June while on a trip to the Titanic.
Titanic submersible debris: Titan, a recreational submarine owned and operated by OceanGate in the US, collapsed during what is thought to have been its descent on June 18 and killed all five passengers on board.
On June 22, the sub’s failure was verified, putting an end to a global rescue operation that had lasted days.
On October 4, the US Coast Guard reported in a statement, “Marine safety engineers with the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor.”
It continued, “Additional supposed human remains were carefully extracted from Titan’s debris and brought for examination by US medical specialists.
In the latter part of June, some debris and maybe human remains were also found.
British adventurer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of the Titan’s operating company OceanGate Expeditions, made up the group of five men on board.
1,600 feet (500 metres) from the Titanic’s bow, which is located 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, a debris field was discovered.
The Titan, an SUV-sized ship, collapsed at a depth of more than two miles (almost four kilometres) under the crushing pressure of the North Atlantic, leaving the victims thought to have perished instantly.
The Titan lost touch around an hour and a half after it fell into the ocean, and the US Coast Guard and Canadian officials have initiated investigations to determine what caused the catastrophe.
With 2,224 passengers and crew on board, the Titanic sank in 1912 while on its first voyage from England to New York. Over 1,500 people passed away.
It was discovered in 1985 and has since attracted both underwater tourists and nautical professionals.