Titanic submarine: What happened?
The family of the British billionaire and teenager who died aboard the Titanic sub were on its mother ship when the tragedy struck.
Suleman Dawood, 19, and his father Shahzada, were among the five people aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible who died during a “catastrophic implosion” as it descended to the wreck of the ocean liner in the Atlantic Ocean last week.
Christine Dawood and her 17-year-old daughter, Alina, were on the Polar Prince, the sub’s support vessel, when the Titan lost communications and was never heard from again, she told the BBC.
Youtuber James Donaldson, most known as MrBeast, has revealed he was invited on the OceanGate Titanic expedition tour that imploded last week, killing all five of its passengers.
“I was invited earlier this month to ride the [T]itanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” Mr Donaldson tweeted.
The Coast Guard announced debris from the sub was located approximately 12,500 feet (3,810 metres) underwater and 1,600 feet away from the Titanic wreckage.
Will the passengers’ bodies ever be found?
Due to the depth of the debris and the nature of the passengers’ deaths, it is unlikely that their remains will ever be found.
In Thursday’s press conference confirming the deaths of the five men on board, Rear Adm Mauger said the Coast Guard was “not sure” if the bodies could be recovered.
“This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” he said.
“And so we’ll continue to work and continue to search the area down there, but I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time.”
Andrea Blanco26 June 2023 12:00
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