2023-06-22 23:16:00
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Hope is over. The submarine Titanof the company OceanGatewho disappeared earlier this week while exploring the site where lies the Titanic suffered a “catastrophic implosion” and there are no survivors.
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“The debris is consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said at a news conference, after it was announced the discovery of debris in the area where the search for the submersible was carried out.
The five people who were on board the Titan –Shahzada y Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet y Stockton Rush– they died.
“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans,” the company that operated the ship said in a statement.
The submersible lost contact with its mother ship on Sunday morning about an hour and 45 minutes later than it should have been. a two hour descent.
Why can’t divers rescue the lost submarine?
Rescue teams from various countries spent days searching in thousands of square kilometers of open sea with planes, ships and underwater robots any sign of the Titan6.7 meters.
TITANIC EXPLORATION
As explained by the website of the company, the expeditions to the remains of the Titanic, which cost around 250.000 euros, they develop in eight hours: half past two for the descent –at about 3,800 meters deep-, three for the exploration and two and a half hours more for the ascent.
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El Titanic, which sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, it is located about 1,450 kilometers east of Cape Cod, in the US state of Massachusetts, and 640 kilometers south of Saint John, Newfoundland.
WHO WERE THE PASSENGERS
Shahzada Dawood He is a British citizen and businessman of Pakistani origin. He is listed as a trustee of the SETI Institute, a nonprofit research organization on life and intelligence in the universe. As the family explains to the BBC, he and his son Suleman were “on a trip to visit the remains of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean”. Hamish Harding is a British businessman, pilot, and explorer residing in the United Arab Emirates. He runs the company Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealer. The day before diving into the Titanannounced with enthusiasm through social networks that he would be part of the mission, although he mentioned the difficulties faced by the company this year for similar expeditions.Paul-Henri Nargeolet is a French explorer who has dedicated his life to studying the RMS Titanic. He has been 37 times in the wreckaccording to Dik Barton, the first British diver to see the wreck of the Titanic, to Good Morning Britain. It is a pilot with wide experience: He was Commander of the First Group of Cleanup Divers from 1976 to 1978. He was later assigned to the Intervention Group Under the Sea (GISMER). And in 1986, Ifremer asked him to lead the dives of another submersible, the Nautile, in the wreck of the Titanic.Stockton Rush He is ex-military and current executive director of OceanGate, the company that owned the lost ship. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, at the age of 19 he became a jet transport pilot youngest in the world, as explained on the company’s website. to build the Titanhad the collaboration of NASA, Boeing and the University of Washington.
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