Titanic Tragedy: How a Tourist Submersible Imploded Near the Iconic Shipwreck Important facts about the Titanic submarine recent incident

Titanic Tragedy: How a Tourist Submersible Imploded Near the Iconic Shipwreck

Important facts about the Titanic submarine recent incident

Coast Guard verifies that the missing craft is the Titanic submarine and that all five people are dead.

Following a fruitless search for a submersible carrying five persons that disappeared while on a tour of the Titanic ruins off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, all passengers are now thought to have perished.

With a 96-hour oxygen supply, the OceanGate Expeditions-operated 21-foot deep-sea yacht lost communication around an hour and 45 minutes after diving on Sunday morning. The United States Coast Guard, which was organising the multilateral search and rescue operations, predicted that there would be insufficient breathable air on Thursday morning.

ALL Important Facts about Titanic Submarine 

- On June 18, 2023, the **Titan** submersible, owned and run by **OceanGate**, an American travel agency, imploded as it descended in the North Atlantic Ocean, close to the Titanic disaster.

Five individuals were aboard the submersible as part of a tourist mission to view the Titanic's wreck. They included a British explorer, a French diver, a father and son from Pakistan, and the creator of OceanGate.

- One hour and forty-five minutes into Titan's dive to the wreck, communication was lost. Later that day, when it didn't return at the anticipated time, authorities were notified.

- After a nearly 80-hour long search, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) located a Titan-related debris field 1,600 feet (about 500 metres) from the Titanic's bow.

- The conclusions were based on the U.S. Navy's declassified sonar discovery of an implosion in the vicinity on the day of the expedition, which showed that the pressure vessel had imploded while Titan was descending, resulting in the **instantaneous death** of all five occupants within the submersible. The vessel's safety had been a source of concern. Executives at OceanGate decided against seeking certification for Titan because they believed that strict safety regulations stifled innovation.

- An international team commanded by the US Coast Guard, US Navy, and Canadian Coast Guard carried out the search and rescue effort. Several commercial and research ships, ROVs, as well as aircraft from the Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States Air National Guard supported the mission.