A five-day search and rescue operation involving US, Canadian, French and British forces ended after debris from the ship was discovered.
Debris area near the Titanic wreck
At a press conference yesterday morning (Vietnam time) in Boston (Massachusetts, USA), Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard said that a Canadian unmanned diving device had discovered a "debris area" on the seabed at a distance of nearly 500 meters from the Titanic wreck. Of these, 5 large pieces belonged to the ill-fated submersible Titan, which went missing on the morning of June 18 while taking tourists to the bottom of the sea to visit the famous Titanic wreck at a depth of 3,800 meters. Titan is a submersible of OceanGate Expeditions Company (headquartered in Everett, Washington, USA).
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Rear Admiral Mauger said the submersible found the top of the Titan's stern, along with two sections of the submersible's pressure chamber. "The debris field is consistent with a blowout," Reuters quoted the US Coast Guard commander as saying. Experts say a blowout occurs when a ship's hull is forced inward by hydrostatic pressure in the ocean. A blowout takes about a thousandth of a second, meaning the victims would have died before they knew what was happening. The US Coast Guard did not say whether any human remains had been found.
US Coast Guard press conference on June 23 in Boston (Massachusetts, USA)
Before the US Coast Guard held a press conference, OceanGate also issued a statement saying there were no survivors on the Titan submersible. The victims include OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush (61 years old); British billionaire Hamish Harding (59 years old); British-Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood (48 years old) and his son Suleman (19 years old); and French oceanographer and famous Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77 years old).
From left to right, top to bottom: Mr. Hamish Harding, Mr. Stockton Rush, Mr. Paul-Henri Nargeolet and father and son Suleman Dawood, Shahzada Dawood
Sound from the deep sea
Rear Admiral Mauger said it was too early to say when the Titan met its tragic fate. Search teams had been floating sonar in the North Atlantic for more than three days and had not recorded any loud or violent sounds in the ocean. However, it appeared the submersible had run into trouble near its destination, given the proximity of the debris field to the Titanic and the fact that the ship had lost contact about an hour and 45 minutes into what was supposed to be a two-hour journey.
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday quoted a senior US Navy official as saying that the force had received a signal that was likely from an explosion in the ocean near the submarine's location at the time the ship lost contact. The newspaper quoted US military sources as saying that the sound was recorded by a top-secret system of equipment installed by the US Navy in this sea area. This is a system designed to detect other submarines but details are not given for security reasons. The information was quickly shared with the command team of the search operation for the ship.
Unmanned underwater vehicles are still collecting evidence on the seabed. It is unclear whether any remains (if any) of the victims will be recovered, given the violent nature of the explosion and the extremely difficult conditions at the bottom of the sea. CNN quoted experts as saying that the Titan wreck needs to be salvaged to find the exact answer to this ship tragedy.
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In 1912, the Titanic sank after hitting a giant iceberg on its maiden and final voyage. Of the 2,224 people on board, more than 1,500 died. The wreck was discovered in 1985 and has since attracted the attention of explorers and adventurers.
Titanic, Titan and the need to revise maritime rules
After the Titanic sank in 1912, governments on both sides of the Atlantic came together to think of ways to protect seafarers. The result was the 1914 Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which included several provisions designed to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again. With the Titan explosion killing five people, legal experts say it is time to revise maritime regulations to regulate deep-sea tourism, with OceanGate being one example. In 2018, experts warned that OceanGate operated the Titan outside of its safety regulations, but the ship continued to carry passengers because it was operating in international waters. The Titan tragedy could be the impetus for new regulations to ensure the safety of future deep-sea tourists.
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