The Titanic submersible’s pilot and four passengers have been killed, OceanGate Expeditions said. The diving vessel went missing on Sunday morning, and its oxygen supply was expected to run out early Thursday.
All five passengers on the missing submersible that has captured the world’s attention over the past week are believed to “have sadly been lost,” the tour company revealed on Thursday.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” OceanGate said in a statement. The company did not release specifics on what led to the “loss of life,” but Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard revealed during a press conference Thursday afternoon that the debris found in the search area of the missing submersible was consistent with “catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”
The submersible Titan was launched from a hired Canadian research icebreaker, Polar Prince, on Sunday morning to visit the Titanic wreckage site located in a remote area of the North Atlantic. The diving vessel went missing that same morning and was unable to communicate with the surface roughly an hour and 45 minutes after it began its descent, the Coast Guard said.
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