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'Presumed human remains' discovered in Titan sub wreckage

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Agence France Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions, shows their Titan submersible launching from a platform. OceanGate Expeditions/AFP/Handout " src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/06/26/20230626-ocean-adventure-afp.jpg"/><figcaption>This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions, shows their Titan submersible launching from a platform.<em> OceanGate Expeditions/AFP/Handout </em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WASHINGTON, United States - Experts have recovered presumed human remains from what is left of the Titan sub that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, with the death of five people, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/06/24/23/what-caused-the-implosion-of-the-titan-sub">What caused the implosion of the Titan sub?</a></li></ul><p>&quot;United States medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered,&quot; the agency said.</p><p>On board were British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of the sub&#x27;s operator OceanGate Expeditions.</p><p>They presumably died instantly when the Titan sub, about the size of an SUV car, imploded under the crushing pressure of the North Atlantic at a depth of more than two miles.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2699429" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>Mangled debris recovered from the small submersible was offloaded earlier in the day in eastern Canada, bringing to an end a difficult search-and-recovery operation.</p><p>That debris will now be taken aboard a US Coast Guard cutter to a US port for further analysis, the organization said.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2699428" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>&quot;There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the Titan and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again,&quot; said the leader of the US probe into the tragedy, Captain Jason Neubauer.</p><p>Television images showed what appeared to be the Titan sub&#x27;s nose cone and a side panel with electronics and wires hanging out being hoisted from a ship onto a flatbed truck at a Canadian Coast Guard terminal in St. John&#x27;s, Newfoundland.</p><p>Pelagic Research, the New York company that owns the Odysseus remote-operated vehicle used in the search for the ill-fated submersible, said its offshore search-and-recovery operation has wrapped up.</p><p>Canadian officials declined to comment on the recovery of the sub debris.</p><p>Titan was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said last Thursday that all five people aboard the submersible had died after the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion.</p><p>A debris field was found on the seafloor, 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, which sits more than two miles (nearly four kilometers) below the ocean&#x27;s surface and 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.</p><p>The announcement of the implosion ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation that captured the world&#x27;s attention since the tourist craft went missing.</p><p>The Coast Guard has launched its highest level of probe, called a Marine Board of Investigation, into this accident.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/06/26/23/titan-sub-us-coast-guard-investigates-cause-of-implosion">Titan sub: US Coast Guard investigates cause of implosion</a></li></ul><div><strong>amc/dw/md</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2692143" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Experts have recovered presumed human remains from what is left of the Titan sub that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, with the death of five people, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday.