Titan: Coast Guard finds "wreckage area" near Titanic in submersible search operations

 

The US Coast Guard says it has found a "wreckage area" near the Titanic site and has launched an underwater mission to see if it is Titan-related.

The United States Coast Guard, the agency leading the search for the Titan submersible, reported Thursday that it had found a "wreckage area" near the Titanic, where the small ship was headed when it disappeared on Sunday.

As reported on Twitter by the Coast Guard, after the discovery made by a remotely operated submersible (ROV), a mission was launched to try to confirm if the remains have any relationship with the Titan.

The United States Coast Guard, the agency leading the search for the Titan submersible, reported Thursday that it had found a "wreckage area" near the Titanic, where the small ship was headed when it disappeared on Sunday.

As reported on Twitter by the Coast Guard, after the discovery made by a remotely operated submersible (ROV), a mission was launched to try to confirm if the remains have any relationship with the Titan.The statement says the Horizon Arctic ROV found the debris on the sea floor near the Titanic wreck. He added that Rear Admiral John Mauger, Commander, Coast Guard 1st District, and Capt. Jamie Frederick, Coast Guard 1st District response coordinator, will speak this afternoon at 3pm ET detailing the find.

The statement says the Horizon Arctic ROV found the debris on the sea floor near the Titanic wreck. He added that Rear Admiral John Mauger, Commander, Coast Guard 1st District, and Capt. Jamie Frederick, Coast Guard 1st District response coordinator, will speak this afternoon at 3pm ET detailing the find.Meanwhile, on the surface, intense search efforts continued with a massive deployment of air and sea troops from the US and Canadian Coast Guards and private vessels.

Communication with the 6.5-meter submersible Titan was lost on Sunday, almost two hours after it began its descent toward the wreckage of the mythical sunken ocean liner, which lies almost 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) deep at about 372 miles (600 km) from Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic.

Her loss was reported about 435 miles (about 700 kilometers) south of St. Johns, Newfoundland, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Titan launched from an OceanGate-contracted icebreaker that the Canadian Coast Guard had previously used. The ship has carried dozens of people and the submersible to the site of the sinking in the North Atlantic, where the Titan has made several dives.

The Everett, Washington-based underwater exploration company has made annual trips to the Titanic since 2021.

Traveling on the Titan are British millionaire Hamish Harding, president of the Action Aviation company, Pakistani Shahzada Dawood, vice president of Engro, and his son Suleman, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions. They each paid $250,000 for the expedition.