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OTTAWA: Presumed human remains and wreckage from the tourist submarine that was wrecked in an undersea implosion that killed all five people on board were recovered from the ocean floor and brought ashore to Canada on Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said.
Possible remains and shattered pieces of Submersible Titanwhich was destroyed while diving into the wreck TitanicJohns, Newfoundland, about 400 miles (650 kilometers) north of the crash site, by the Canadian-flagged vessel Horizon Arctic, according to the Coast Guard.
The agency said the evidence would be transported by coast guard cutter to a US port for analysis and testing by a maritime board of inquiry, which the guard convened this week to conduct an official investigation into the loss of the Titan.
The Coast Guard statement added that US medical professionals “will conduct a formal analysis of the presumed human remains that were carefully recovered within the wreckage at the accident site.”
The nature and extent of possible remains recovered from the site has not been determined.
Video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed what appeared to be the submarine’s nose and other shattered fragments wrapped in white canvas pulled by crane from the surface of Arctic Horizon on Wednesday morning.
The footage also showed a shattered piece of the Titanic’s hull and machinery with dangling wires being removed from the ship in St. John’s, where the expedition to the Titanic began.
Examination of the wreck is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that wrecked Titan earlier this month as the 22-foot vessel carried five people on a voyage to the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), which has conducted its own investigation, said its investigators completed preliminary interviews with the crew of the Canadian-flagged Titan surface support ship, Polar Prince, and seized the ship’s flight data recorder.
TSB also said it “examined, documented and cataloged” all materials recovered from the crash site before handing them over to US authorities.
Fragments from the submarine, which lost contact with the Polar Prince about 1 hour and 45 minutes into a two-hour plunge on June 18, were found scattered on the sea floor about 1,600 feet (488 m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck four days later. .
The discovery, made by a robotic deep-sea diving vehicle that searched the ocean floor for more than 2 miles (3 kilometres), has brought to an end a multinational search that captured worldwide media attention and determined the fate of the five people on board.
Among those killed was Stockton Rush, the submarine pilot and CEO of the US-based company OceanGate Excursions, which owned and operated Titan. British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, was also killed. Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleiman; and 77-year-old French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargolet.
The incident raised questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions and OceanGate’s decision to forgo a third-party industry review and adopt Titan’s new design.
“Our team has successfully completed offshore operations, but remains on mission and will be discharged from Horizon Arctic this morning,” Pelagic Research, which operates a robotic vehicle used to recover debris, said in a statement. .
Possible remains and shattered pieces of Submersible Titanwhich was destroyed while diving into the wreck TitanicJohns, Newfoundland, about 400 miles (650 kilometers) north of the crash site, by the Canadian-flagged vessel Horizon Arctic, according to the Coast Guard.
The agency said the evidence would be transported by coast guard cutter to a US port for analysis and testing by a maritime board of inquiry, which the guard convened this week to conduct an official investigation into the loss of the Titan.
The Coast Guard statement added that US medical professionals “will conduct a formal analysis of the presumed human remains that were carefully recovered within the wreckage at the accident site.”
The nature and extent of possible remains recovered from the site has not been determined.
Video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed what appeared to be the submarine’s nose and other shattered fragments wrapped in white canvas pulled by crane from the surface of Arctic Horizon on Wednesday morning.
The footage also showed a shattered piece of the Titanic’s hull and machinery with dangling wires being removed from the ship in St. John’s, where the expedition to the Titanic began.
Examination of the wreck is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that wrecked Titan earlier this month as the 22-foot vessel carried five people on a voyage to the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), which has conducted its own investigation, said its investigators completed preliminary interviews with the crew of the Canadian-flagged Titan surface support ship, Polar Prince, and seized the ship’s flight data recorder.
TSB also said it “examined, documented and cataloged” all materials recovered from the crash site before handing them over to US authorities.
Fragments from the submarine, which lost contact with the Polar Prince about 1 hour and 45 minutes into a two-hour plunge on June 18, were found scattered on the sea floor about 1,600 feet (488 m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck four days later. .
The discovery, made by a robotic deep-sea diving vehicle that searched the ocean floor for more than 2 miles (3 kilometres), has brought to an end a multinational search that captured worldwide media attention and determined the fate of the five people on board.
Among those killed was Stockton Rush, the submarine pilot and CEO of the US-based company OceanGate Excursions, which owned and operated Titan. British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, was also killed. Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleiman; and 77-year-old French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargolet.
The incident raised questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions and OceanGate’s decision to forgo a third-party industry review and adopt Titan’s new design.
“Our team has successfully completed offshore operations, but remains on mission and will be discharged from Horizon Arctic this morning,” Pelagic Research, which operates a robotic vehicle used to recover debris, said in a statement. .
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