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Washington (AFP) - More debris and suspected human remains have been recovered from a privately owned submersible which failed catastrophically in June while on a mission to the Titanic, the US Coast Guard said. All five people on board the recreational sub, named Titan and operated by US-based company OceanGate, were killed when the vessel imploded, which is believed to have occurred during its June 18 descent. The sub's failure was confirmed on June 22, ending a days-long rescue mission which captivated the world. The Coast Guard has launched its highest level of probe, called a Marine Board...
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Washington (AFP) - The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said Thursday it had halted all activities indefinitely. The Titan sub was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said on June 22 that the vessel had suffered a catastrophic implosion, ending a rescue operation that had captivated the world. US-based OceanGate said on its website that it had "suspended all exploration and commercial operations" two weeks after the tragedy, in which company CEO Stockton Rush was among the dead. Also on board were Br...
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Washington (AFP) - 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. "United States medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered," the agency said. 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's operator OceanGate Expeditions. They presumab...
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Ottawa (AFP) - Mangled debris recovered from the small submersible that was destroyed when it imploded during a recent dive to the Titanic wreck was offloaded Wednesday in eastern Canada, bringing to an end a difficult search-and-recovery operation. Television images showed what appeared to be the Titan sub'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's. Pelagic Research, the New York company that owns the Odysseus remote-operated vehicle used in the search for the ill-fated su...
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Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian authorities said Friday they would launch an investigation into the loss this week of the Titan submersible along with five people onboard during a dive to the Titanic wreck. The Canadian-flagged Polar Prince cargo vessel towed the Titan out to sea last weekend but lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes after the submersible launched into the ocean depths. The Canadian Transportation Safety Board said "as the investigation authority of the flag state of the support vessel" it would "conduct a safety investigation regarding the circumstances of this operation....
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Washington (AFP) - The Titanic inspired a tear-jerking blockbuster and expeditions to its watery gravesite -- including a fatal one this week -- but viral TikTok videos peddle a stunning conspiracy theory: the ship never sank. More than a century after it went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, wild myths and urban legends about the luxury liner have continued to swirl, including that it was doomed by the curse of a mummified Egyptian priestess. Even more striking are a wave of TikTok videos asserting that the Titanic did not sink at all. Many of them have racked up millions of views -- never m...
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Boston (AFP) - All five people aboard a submersible missing near the wreck of the Titanic died -- likely in an instant -- after their vessel suffered what the US Coast Guard said Thursday was a "catastrophic implosion" in the ocean depths. The somber announcement ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation that captivated the world since the tiny tourist craft went missing in the North Atlantic four days ago. Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston that analysis showed debris found on the seafloor, 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, was consistent with the imp...
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Washington (AFP) - Five people on a tourist submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic are believed to be dead, after the US Coast Guard said Thursday that debris had been found after a frantic days long hunt for the vessel. Among those on board the vessel was the tour operator's boss, a French submarine operator known as "Mr Titanic", a British aviation tycoon and a wealthy Pakistani businessman and his son. Stockton RushStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, a company based in Washington state which operates the tourist dives an...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The journey to the ocean floor to reach the wreck of the Titanic is one that gets relentlessly colder and darker, says one of the handful of people who have ever visited the luxury liner's watery grave. Tom Zaller, who runs the company behind "Titanic: The Exhibition," said touring the ship's resting place in a tiny submersible -- like the one that vanished Sunday in the North Atlantic -- was unforgettable, but frightening. "As you get deeper and deeper, it gets darker and darker," he told AFP of his voyage, 23 years ago. "When you first start off on the top, it's quite war...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Since it sank on its maiden voyage more than a century ago, the Titanic has maintained an unshakeable grip on the public imagination. A monument to the technological progress of its time -- and the hubris of men who thought they had built an unsinkable ship -- one of the world's deadliest ocean disasters has inspired books, blockbuster movies, stage productions and countless adventurers who want to see what happened when the luxury liner hit an iceberg. Among them, the wealthy passengers and crew of a submersible that vanished Sunday in the North Atlantic Ocean on their way...
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