Updated 4:30 p.m. EST — United States Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger shared that this morning a remote operated vehicle discovered a piece of the Titan submersible, approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor.
“In consultation with experts… the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” Mauger shared.
At 4:21 p.m. ET the Twitter account for OceanGate Explorations, the company that provided the Titan trip, said that all on board are believed to be lost. They include OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakastani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood.
Mauger shared his condolences to the loved ones of the crew and passengers on board the Titan. The ROVs are continuing to search the seafloor at this time.
“The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Mauger said. “We’ll continue to work and search the area down there.”
There is no clear evidence as to what caused the believed implosion of the vessel.
Updated 3:00 p.m. EST — OceanGate Expeditions has released a statement sharing that they believe the five passengers on the Titan Submersible to be lost.
The United States Coast Guard is hosting a press conference to discuss the update.
Original post — The United States Coast Guard announced on Thursday that it has discovered a “debris field” within the search area for the Titan submersible that went missing while exploring the Titanic wreckage.
“Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information,” it added.
The underwater remotely operated vehicles were deployed to search the floor of the Atlantic Ocean for the vessel on Thursday morning.
There has been no additional information made available about what the debris field was from.
This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.
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