UPDATE: OceanGate Inc. released a statement saying it believes all five aboard the Titan submersible have 'sadly been lost.' U.S. Coast Guard officials said the search had uncovered parts of the Titan consistent with an implosion.
Five people are missing after leaving on a submersible watercraft to tour the Titanic’s wreckage. Here’s what you need to know. might help narrow their search, whose coverage area has been expanded to thousands of miles — twice the size of Connecticut and in waters 2 1/2 miles deep. Coast Guard officials said underwater noises were detected in the search area Tuesday and Wednesday.
Captain Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District said a day earlier that authorities were still holding out hope of saving Retired Navy Capt. Carl Hartsfield, now the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Systems Laboratory, said the sounds detected have been described as “banging noises,” but he warned that search crews “have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential manmade sources other than the Titan.
Lost aboard the vessel is pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate. His passengers are: British adventurer Hamish Harding; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; and French explorer and Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet. At least 46 people successfully traveled on OceanGate’s submersible to the Titanic wreck site in 2021 and 2022, according to letters the company filed with a U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck. two years ago as a “kamikaze operation.”
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