Missing Titanic Submersible‘Catastrophic Implosion’ Likely Killed 5 Aboard Submersible
Pieces of the missing Titan vessel were found on the ocean floor, about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, the Coast Guard said. OceanGate Expeditions, the vessel’s operator, said, “Our hearts are with these five souls.”
Daniel Victor, Jesus Jiménez and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
The five people aboard the submersible that went missing on Sunday were presumed dead on Thursday, after an international search that gripped much of the world found debris from the vessel near the wreckage of the Titanic. A U.S. Coast Guard official said the debris was “consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.”
On Sunday, a secret U.S. network of acoustic sensors picked up indications of a possible implosion in the vicinity of the submersible around the time communications with it were lost, a senior Navy official disclosed on Thursday. The search continued because there was no immediate confirmation that the Titan had met a disastrous end, according to a second senior Navy official. Both officials spoke anonymously to discuss operational details.
Secret Navy sensors detected a possible implosion around the time the Titan’s communications failed.
The U.S. Navy, using data from a secret network of underwater sensors designed to track hostile submarines, detected “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” in the vicinity of the Titan submersible at the time communications with the vessel were lost on Sunday, two senior Navy officials said on Thursday.
But with no other indications of a catastrophe, one of the officials said, the search was continued.
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The Titan submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic on Sunday appeared to have suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, and offered its condolences to the families of the five people who were on board.
Debris from the vessel, which vanished while descending to view the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic, was found on the ocean floor on Thursday morning, about 1,600 feet from the bow of the shipwreck, Rear Admiral John Mauger of the Coast Guard said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon.
Daniel Victor
OceanGate said in a statement that “we now believe that our
CEO Stockton Rush,
Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood,
Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.”
- Who was on board: Tour organizer OceanGate Expeditions said
- Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet
- and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush .........................died in the submersible.
Nargeolet, a French diver, was an incredible person and highly respected in his field, said his friend Tom Dettweiler, a fellow ocean explorer. The president of The Explorers Club said the group is heartbroken over the tragic loss. Two passengers, businessman Harding and Nargeolet, were members, it said. Engro Corporation Limited, of which Shahzada Dawood was Vice Chairman, said the company grieves the loss of him and his son. The governments of Pakistan and the United Kingdom also offered condolences.
Daniel Victor
The five people on board included the chief executive of the company that operated the submersible, a Guinness World Record-holding explorer, a man who dived to the Titanic more than 35 times, and a father-and-son duo. Read more about the lives that were lost here.
CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet,
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This is who's on board the missing submersible
From CNN staff
Authorities said the Titan submersible was carrying five people when its mothership lost contact with it on Sunday, about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent to explore the Titanic wreckage.
Here's what we know about the people on board:
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French diver with decades of experience exploring the Titanic, is on the vessel, according to his family.
Nargeolet serves as the director of underwater research at RMS Titanic Inc., the company that has exclusive rights to salvage artifacts from the ship. According to his biography on the company's website, Nargeolet completed 35 dives to the wreck and supervised the recovery of 5,000 artifacts. He spent 22 years in the French Navy, where he rose to the rank of commander, the website says.
British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding is on the submersible, his company Action Aviation said in a social media statement.
Harding made headlines in 2019 for being part of a flight crew that broke the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe via both poles. In 2020, he became one of the first people to dive to Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, widely believed to be the deepest point in the world's oceans. Last year, he paid an undisclosed sum of money for one of the seats on Blue Origin's space flight.
The family of Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood, said the two are on board. A family statement said the duo had taken the "journey to visit the remnants of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean."
The Dawoods are a prominent Pakistani business family. Dawood Hercules Corporation, their business, is among the largest corporations in the country, with a portfolio spanning energy, petrochemicals, fertilizers, IT, food and agriculture.
OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush is among the five onboard, according to a source with knowledge of the mission plan.
The company did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment about Rush being aboard. According to the company's social media posts, he has previously piloted "Titan," the missing vessel.
Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, father-son passengers, love science fiction and travel.
OceanGate was warned of potential for ‘catastrophic’ problems with its Titanic mission.
Photos from an early test of the Titan show how the submersible is deployed.
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Note: Vessel positions are as of 11 a.m. Eastern Thursday.
Sources: United States Coast Guard; MarineTraffic; “The Discovery of the Titanic” by Robert D. Ballard (locations of Titanic wreckage)
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