Pilot and 4 passengers on missing submersible are dead, US Coast Guard says
Headline from La Crosse Tribune, on the newest of 2 developments
OceanGate Expeditions on Thursday says its pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet “have sadly been lost.”
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The Titan submersible: What it is, what might have gone wrong and what's being done to find it
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Pilot and 4 passengers on missing submersible are dead, US Coast Guard says
The Titan submersible vanished on Sunday an hour and forty-five minutes after departing to view the wreckage of the Titanic, carrying five people onboard the 22 ft. […]
A growing number of aircraft and ships from the U.S. and Canada are searching for the submersible vessel Titan, which disappeared on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic.
The five-person, custom-built submersible lost contact with the surface near the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday, and has 96 hours of emergency oxygen on board.
The Titan, a 21-foot submersible, was diving with four passengers and one pilot towards the wreck of the Titanic. But it disappeared 105 minutes after submerging and hasn't been heard from since.
The Titan, a minivan-size submersible, was carrying five people to the Titanic's watery grave when it lost contact. The vessel has enough oxygen to keep its passengers alive for about 40 more hours.
The missing submersible is equipped with several mechanisms that can bring it back to the surface during an emergency, according to a former passenger.
OceanGate Expeditions' small Titan submersible set off with 5 people, including 3 paying passengers and, at most, about 96 hours' worth of oxygen on board.
OceanGate Expeditions on Thursday says its pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet “have sadly been lost.”
The search for a missing submersible with five people aboard took a bleak turn Thursday when the U.S. Coast Guard said a debris field was found at the bottom of the ocean near the Titanic, and the critical 96-hour mark passed when breathable air could have run out.
OceanGate Expeditions on Thursday says its pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet 'have sadly been lost.'
The five people who were on board deep sea submersible called the Titan are now believed to be dead. The US Coast Guard said today a debris field on the ocean floor "is consistent with a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure.
The Titan submersible was estimated to have about a four-day supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic — but experts have emphasized that was an imprecise approximation.
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