Posted on 06/22/2023 12:40:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
The debris found at the seafloor was “consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” the Coast Guard said.
All five people aboard the Titan submersible are believed to be dead, and debris discovered in the search area for the missing vessel was consistent with a "catastrophic implosion," the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The debris was found off the bow of the sunken Titanic, officials said.
The search for the Titan, which went missing Sunday after embarking on a mission to survey the wreckage of the Titanic, had been focused on an area where Canadian aircraft detected "underwater noises" Tuesday and again yesterday.
U.S. Coast Guard officials had estimated the five passengers could run out of air just before 7:10 a.m. ET today, and the location of the missing vessel had remained a mystery even as the search intensified.
Sonar buoys in search did not detect any implosion sounds Marlene Lenthang
It's not clear exactly when the Titan imploded, but Coast Guard officials said that sonar buoys dispatched "did not hear any signs of catastrophic failure."
"This was a catastrophic implosion of the vessel which would have generated a significant broadband sound down there that the sonar buoys would have picked up," First Coast Guard District commander Rear Adm. John Mauger said at a news conference today.
Sonar buoys had detected noises in the water Tuesday and Wednesday that were being assessed for patterns, but Mauger said Thursday "there doesn't appear to be any connection between the noises and the location [of the debris] on the sea floor."
Debris is consistent with a 'catastrophic implosion' of sub Marlene Lenthang
The debris found at the sea floor was "consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," Rear Adm. John Mauger of the Coast Guard said.
When asked if it's possible the vessel collided with the Titanic, he said it was found off the bow of the Titanic.
Carl Hartsfield with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said the debris data is consistent with an implosion in the water column.
"It's in an area where there's not any debris of the Titanic, it is a smooth bottom. To my knowledge ... there's no Titanic wreckage in that area and again 200 plus meters from the bow, and consistent with the location of last communication for an implosion in the water column," he said.
Dawood's older sister feels like she's been 'caught in a really bad film'
Daniel Arkin
The older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood feels "absolutely heartbroken" that her brother and her 19-year-old nephew were aboard the Titan vessel.
"I feel very bad that the whole world has had to go through so much trauma, so much suspense," Azmeh Dawood said in a phone interview this afternoon, speaking from the home in Amsterdam she shares with her husband.
"I feel like I’ve been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn’t know what you’re counting down to," she said, fighting back tears. "I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them."
Azmeh claimed that her nephew did not want to go on the submarine but agreed to take part in the expedition because it was important to his father, a lifelong Titanic obsessive. Suleman "wasn't very up for it" and "terrified," she claimed, explaining that the 19-year-old expressed his concerns to another family member.
"If you gave me a million dollars, I would not have gotten into the Titan," she said.
Tail cone of Titan found 1,600 feet from bow of the Titanic floor, Coast Guard says Marlene Lenthang
“This morning, an ROV from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tailbone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor," Rear Adm. John Mauger, said this afternoon.
Afterward, the ROV found additional debris and it was found to be consistent with the "the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," he said.
The families of the five crew members on board were notified afterward.
Will have to. nothing left to recover..............
They had the sound of the USS Scorpion imploding in 1968 off the coast of the Azores.............
...similar to people going to events and spending the entire time looking at their phone recording it vs. just enjoying it.
I don’t get it. Do they capture the video to show others that they watched the event on-screen just like others on TV? ...just so they can say “but I was there!” (watching it on my screen).
Will the carbon fiber manufacturers survive the tort lawyers?
It’s probably a good thing there were no fetishized classes of people on board.
Let’s hope the disregard for prudent operating measures will be a lesson to others .
Maybe the foolishness of disregarding experience of others will be a checkpoint on others hubris.
They’re dead. D-E-D. dead.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain (attrib)...............
From day one..............
They could be alive, there were some strong swimmers in that sub. /sarc
“Presumed dead” is such a stupid thing to say about people in a sub that imploded over two miles underwater in the cold, cold North Atlantic.
If they had been alive for any length of time, I cannot imagine the horror they went through. There is no way to know if the craft was vertical or horizontal. They didn’t have a true waste station so fear and tears probably made the air unbreathable. The darkness, the hopelessness, knowing no one could hear them scream or cry - my heart breaks for them- especially the boy. Rest in Peace.
Can someone explain to me why we are searching for bodies?
IT’s SOP, but they won’t find much I think.
They would have been immediately squashed into a bloody mush, bones, flesh, skulls everything and all together in one blob.
Then, since it’s been 4 days in the open ocean, they would be dispersed and remains eaten by every fish in the nearby sea...........
Don’t cry, you are projecting yourself into their imaginary experience. Sure it is tragic but doubtful they experienced much misery. It probably didn’t take long. A catastrophic implosion would be a few seconds maybe 12 at the very most. Not enough time to take in a breath to hold. Imagine a soda can. It resists being crushed until it starts being crushed and then it happens all at once. They may have seen a crack form and some water seeping in but they wouldn’t have had enough time to say oh shit after that.
Amongst the dead, woke’s very own Stockton “Crush” Rush.
Ain’t no fish down that deep.
There are some scavengers, but the remains would have floated to the surface..............
we are the sheeple and they tell us what they want us to know....
I think they did it out of national security concerns and respect for the families privacy................
No 50 year old White men, but everybody onboard was “impressed”.
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