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On 4am, Saturday, June 17, the Titan submersible made by the revolutionary company OceanGate set down into the waters of Newfoundland on the company’s first manned submersible mission to the ruins of the Titanic. The passengers included British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani investor Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. At 9:45 am, communication was lost with the submersible. At 3:00 pm, when the submersible was supposed to return, it did not. At 5:40pm US Coast Guard receives report about an overdue submersible from the research vessel Polar Prince about 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod on the US coast. Monday,
US and Canadian ships and planes swarmed the area, some dropping sonar buoys that can monitor to a depth of almost 4,000 meters. Officials also asked commercial vessels for help. Around this time, the French minister confirmed they would send the vessels “Victor 6000” and “Atlante” During the day: Sounds detected over several hours by Canadian Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, equipped with gear to trace submarines and report banging sounds at 30-minute intervals had been detected on Thursday. Thursday 6:00 was the Approximate deadline for when the air in the submersible was expected to run out, based on the US Coast Guard’s estimate that the Titan could have up to 96 hours of air supply from the time it was sealed. 4:00 pm Five crew members aboard the submersible Titan were probably killed instantly in a “catastrophic implosion”, the US Coast Guard said. Rear Adm John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, said a remotely operated vehicle discovered the tail cone of the Titan sub and the debris is “consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber”. A large debris field containing five major pieces of the vessel were spotted by a remotely operated vehicle scouring the seabed near the Titanic wreck site 400 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, officials said.
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