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A submersible carrying 5 people to the Titanic imploded near the site of the shipwreck & killed everyone on board, authorities said Thursday, bringing a tragic end to a saga that included an urgent around-the-clock search & a worldwide vigil for the missing vessel.
The sliver of hope that remained for finding the 5 men alive was wiped away early Thursday, when the submersible’s 96-hour supply of oxygen was expected to run out & the Coast Guard announced that debris had been found roughly 1,600 feet from the Titanic in North Atlantic waters.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned & operated the submersible, said that all 5 people in the vessel, including CEO & pilot Stockton Rush, “have sadly been lost.”
The others on board were: 2 members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood & his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding & Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
OceanGate has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay & the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.
The Titan launched at 6 a.m. Sunday & was reported overdue Sunday afternoon about 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, as it was on its way to where the Titanic sank more than a century ago. By Thursday, when the oxygen supply was expected to run out, there was little hope of finding the crew alive.
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Source: AP
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