Underwater robots will remain at the search site to gather additional information about the sub, Mauger said. ".I'm confident that those questions will begin to get answered." "I know that there's also a lot of questions about how, why and when did this happen, and so, you know, those are questions that we will collect as much information as we can on now while the governments are meeting and discussing what an investigation of this nature of a casualty might look like," Mauger said.
The sub launched into the Atlantic from a Canadian research vessel Sunday morning, and the ship lost contact with the Titan an hour and 45 minutes into the dive. This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. "We know that - as we've been prosecuting this search over the course of the last 72 hours and beyond - that we've had sonar buoys in the water nearly continuously and have not detected any catastrophic events when those sonar buoys have been in the water," he said. Mauger said it was too early to tell when the sub imploded. "We then found a large debris field" followed by "a second, smaller debris field."Ĭarl Hartsfield of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said the sub's wreck was found in a smooth area of the sea floor where there wasn't any debris from the ocean liner that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. The initial thing we found was the nose cone," he said. "Essentially we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the Titan. Navy salvage expert, said at the briefing that the sub was found scattered in pieces, and that the team "will do the best we can to fully map out what's down there." Five passengers were aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible that was lost on a dive to view the Titanic. Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, his 19-year-old son Suleman, billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate founder Stockton Rush were on the sub. "I can only imagine what this has been like for them, and I hope that this discovery provides some solace during this difficult time."
"On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families," Mauger said.
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