What was found in the rubble near the Titanic: this is what is known about the tragedy of the Titanic submersible

Four days after disappearing in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the United States Coast Guard confirmed this Thursday that it found the remains of the Titan submersible, which was traveling with five people to see the remains of the titanic.

with the finding Hopes of finding the five crew members alive, millionaires and explorers, are over. of this trip that started last Friday and ended tragically.

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rear admiral john maugerof the Coast Guard, reported that the remains of the apparatus were found by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operated by canadian ship horizon arctic and later experts determined that “are consistent with a catastrophic implosion”that is to say, a rupture and collapse caused by the greater pressure from the outside.

Rear Admiral John Mauger of the United States Coast Guard speaks at a news conference on the Titan submersible. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP). (JOSEPH PRECIOUS /)

Despite the fact that there is no longer any hope of finding them alive, the work to recover the remains of the device will continue. The bodies of the five people have not been found.Mauger confirmed.

All this to try to discover what happenedsince Sunday the submersible lost contact with the outside, when the implosion occurred and also what were the causes of the accident.

“Right now it’s too early to tell.” explained the rear admiral, who did specify that the sonar buoys that were placed in the sea detected various sounds but did not perceive “any catastrophic event”.

The remains, including the tail of the submersiblewere found scattered less than half a kilometer from the titanicalmost 4,000 meters deep and 600 km from the mainland, Mauger explained.

Here is the chronology of an event with a Hollywood movie script, but without its happy ending.

This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions shows their Titan submersible being towed to a dive site in Everett, Washington. (AFP). (HANDOUT/)

THE SUBMERSIBLE DISAPPEARS

He Titantowed by the ship “Polar Prince”departed on Friday from the port of San Juan de Newfoundlandin Canadatowards the place of the sinking of the titanic.

The mission to go down to see the remains of the ship, sunk in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, it should have lasted ten hours. The company OceanGate Expeditions was the owner and operator of the submersible, used to carry out expeditions in deep seas.

This handout image taken during the historic 1986 dive, courtesy of WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and released on February 15, 2023, shows the bow of the Titanic. (Photo by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute / AFP) (-/)

In his web page, the company offers eight-day, seven-night voyages to visit the wreckage of the Titanicwhich are located at a depth of about 3,800 meters, for an approximate price of 250,000 dollars.

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It was last Monday when the company reported that He had not had contact with the submersible since Sunday. Since that same Sunday, the Coast Guard of the United States began an extensive search operation with the help of Canada to locate the device.

Rescue efforts focused on an area located approximately 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.. The submersible could be found both on the surface and under the ocean, at a depth of up to 13,000 feet (about 4,000 meters).

According to the first data of Ocean Gate Expeditionsthe boat had provisions so that the crew could survive inside for four days.

40 HOURS OF OXYGEN

On Tuesday, they quantified how much time they had left of oxygen. The Coast Guard reported that the crew only had 40 hours left – until early Thursday – so The United States and Canada intensified the search efforts, with planes and ships equipped with underwater drones.

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Numerous public and private resources were put into the search: from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport plane from USA to a Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Canadacapable of detecting objects under the sea.

The search involved troops and resources from the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom, with planes, boats and underwater drones. Search operations were coordinated at a Boston city center.

Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Suleman Dawood and his father Shahzada Dawood, the crew members of the Titan submersible. (AFP). (JOEL SAGETHANDOUT/)

MILLIONAIRES AND ADVENTURERS

As the hours passed, names began to be given to the five occupants of the vehicle, all of them millionaires or people who have dedicated their lives to adventure or exploration.

In it Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood was traveling with his son Suleman, 19 year old student; the british explorer Hamish Harding; the french explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and the CEO of the firm OceanGate, Stockton Rush.

Some details about what the submersible was like also began to be known. Among them the size of its interior, similar to a minivan.

In each dive, the five crew members are forced to take off their shoes and sit cross-legged on the same floor., since there are no seats, to fit in the 670-centimeter-long cylinder. Inside the ship there is only one window to be able to see the outside in turns.

The search area. (AFP).

FINDING OF NOISE

On Tuesday night, the Coast Guard reported that several sonar buoys placed by Canadian aircraft had detected some type of noise.

On Wednesday it was explained that Navy experts were studying the noises detected in “an incredibly complex site” where “there is a lot of metal and different objects in the water,” said US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger.

The rear admiral assured that “as long as there is a chance of survival” work would continue to try to locate the submersible.

The Titan submersible. (AFP).

WITHOUT OXYGEN

The deadline for the crew members to run out of oxygen was met this Thursday morning. Still, the Mauger He stated that search and rescue was continuing with the arrival of “new capacity.”

“People’s will to live must also be taken into account,” He said, so it will continue to “search and proceed with the rescue efforts.”

A few hours later her own Coast Guard He announced that he had found some “rubble” near the area where the remains of the Titanic are located and that they were being studied.

In the subsequent press conference Mauger confirmed the worst omen: the wreckage belonged to the semi-submersible and there were no survivors.

Even so, there are still many unknowns to be cleared up. In fact, the work to recover the remains continues, to try to answer some of the unknowns of an event that has kept the world on edge for the last four days.

Source: Elcomercio