Rear Admiral John Mauger announced missing Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving behind a pile of rubble 1,600 feet from the wreck RMS Titanic Thursday afternoon.
Update Thursday, June 22, 2023 3:55 p.m. EST – U.S. Navy submariner and deep-ocean pilot Mark Martin, who knows two of the lost souls aboard the Titan, told WFLA News his sources said the sub was attempting to drop ballast when they lost contact with the support ship. Polar Prince.
Mauger stressed that it was too early to give reporters too many details, however, he noted that during that time, rescue efforts were still ongoing, with no major noises. heard from buoys on the water—in addition intermittent and still unexplained typing sound—meaning the ship was likely to explode when the support ship lost contact with Titan two hours after commencing the dive.
He was also quite effective at dodging journalists’ questions regarding body recovery. In response to a question about casualties, Mauger insisted it was a bad environment.
“It was an extremely harsh environment and the debris showed a catastrophic explosion,” Mauger said. He seemed to be urging reporters who had gathered to grab the hint as far as body recovery was concerned.
The debris field consists of the nose cone outside the pressure line, a large debris field containing the front bell of the pressure vessel. The second smaller debris field has the other end of the pressure line, the bell behind — the entire vessel is under pressure.
For now, the plan is to continue deploying remote-controlled vehicles to map the area around the wreckage to learn more about how the wreck happened. However, the answer may come in a trickle. The wreck is two and a half miles below the surface of the ocean, and very few ships are considered capable of reaching such depths.
In response to the missing submarine, a massive search involving assets from the United States, Canada and France has spent the past four days searching for Titan both in the sea and in the air. A mysterious knocking sound offered a glimmer of hope on Wednesday, but most estimates suggest that Titan will run out of oxygen by Thursday morning.
Five men were killed in the incident; Hamish HardingPresident of aircraft market Action AviationGroup president Shahzada Dawood, who works at the Engro Group with his 19-year-old son Suleman, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French explorer and Titanic wreck enthusiast, and Stockton Rush, CEO and founder of OceanGate.
This is a new story and we will update as we know more.
