23rd June, 2023
By Nimot Sulaimon
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger on Thursday confirmed that Titan, a deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, imploded.
His announcement ended a five-day multinational search for the vessel.
Here are five quick facts about the submersible.
1. The Titan was roughly the size of a minivan with only enough room for five adults.
2. All five adventurers; Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have been declared dead.
3. The Titan lost contact with its surface support ship on Sunday morning about an hour, 45 minutes into what should have been a two-hour dive to the world’s most famous shipwreck.
4. Search teams and support personnel from the U.S., Canada, France and Britain had spent days scanning thousands of square miles of open seas with planes and ships for any sign of the Titan.
5. A robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field from the submersible Titan on Thursday morning on the seabed some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, 2 1/2 miles (4 km) beneath the surface, in a remote corner of the North Atlantic.
