The US Coast Guard has informed that the possible remains of a crew member and the wreckage of the tourist submarine Titan have been recovered from the water, writes Reuters.
On Wednesday, the 28th of June, the wreckage of the crushed tourist submarine Titan, as well as the remains of a crew member, were recovered from the bottom of the ocean. The Canadian ship Horizon Arctic brought the findings to the port of Saint John. A US Coast Guard cutter is scheduled to take the evidence to a US port for analysis and research. A board of inquiry has been convened to investigate the circumstances of Titan’s demise.
US forensic experts will conduct “an official examination of the recovered remains, which were recovered with the utmost care from the wreckage of the submarine”. It is not specified what was obtained at the scene of the accident.
It is expected that the study of the debris could shed more light on the reasons for the catastrophic implosion.
It destroyed a small tourist submarine on the 18th of June, killing five people who had gone down to view the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic.
Canada’s Transport Safety Board (TSB), which is conducting a separate investigation, said investigators had completed initial interviews with the crew of the Titan-based Polar Prince and seized the ship’s voyage data records. The TSB also said it “reviewed, documented, and organized” all materials recovered from the accident scene before handing them over to US authorities.
The tourist submarine lost contact with the carrier Polar Prince on the 18th of June, after an hour and 45-minute journey,
and four days later the wreckage of the vessel was found less than half a kilometer from the bow of the Titanic wreck. The discovery of the deep-sea remote-controlled submarine concluded the international search operation.
The incident has raised questions about the control of such trips. OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who personally participated in every trip his company made to the Titanic wreck, also died aboard the Titan.
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