BREAKING: OceanGate Expeditions, the company leading the Titan submersible trip, says the 5 missing crew members are believed to be dead.
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," OceanGate Expeditions said in a statement.
The Titan 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 to begin with and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air. And it's not known if they survived since the sub's disappearance.
The Titan was reported overdue Sunday afternoon about 435 miles south of St. John's, Newfoundland, as it was on its way to where the iconic ocean liner sank more than a century ago. OceanGate Expeditions, which is leading the trip, has been chronicling the Titanic's decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.The issue is, we don't have a lot of capability or systems that can go to the depth this vessel was going to.Dr.
This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. Rescuers are racing against time to find the missing submersible carrying five people, who were reported overdue Sunday night. The U.S. Navy said in a statement Wednesday that it had sent a specialized salvage system that's capable of hoisting "large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels."
One of the company's first customers characterized a dive he made to the site two years ago as a "kamikaze operation."
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