2023-06-22 23:42:22
Time.news – They belong to Titanthe bathyscaphe that disappeared last Sunday with five people on board heading towards the wreck of the Titanic, the wreckage found by one of the two robots used in research. AND the passengers are all dead. This is confirmed by the US Coast Guard. According to an expert quoted by the BBC, it would be the rear and landing frame of the small submarine.
The US Coast Guard certifies that the wreckage of the submarine was found about two hundred meters from the Titanic and believes that the tragedy was due to an “implosion”.
The discovery of a “debris field”
In the afternoon, when by now the hopes of finding the living and missing had diminished, having passed the term within which ran out of oxygenThe US Coast Guard reported that one of the two deployed remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) had discovered a “debris field” in the Titan’s search area.
The ROV of the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic has identified the remains on the seabed, about 200 meters from the Titanic, at a depth of almost 4,000 meters. The debris field “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion,” US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said at a press conference in Boston, speaking of a “catastrophic loss” of pressure at the source. of the accident.
The hypothesis of an “instantaneous implosion”
An “instantaneous implosion” may have occurred in OceanGate’s Titan submarine. It is the hypothesis of Guillermo Soehnleinco-founder of the company together with the missing pilot of the Titan, Stockton Rush.
“What I do know is that, regardless of the submarine, when operating at depth the pressure is so great on any submarine that if there was a failure there would be an instantaneous implosion. If that’s what happened, it would have happened four days ago.” Soehnlein said in an interview with the BBC immediately after the news of the discovery of the debris field”.
Soehnlein also said he wasn’t surprised if something was found on the surface as well. “I know our protocol for lost communications requires the pilot to bring the submarine out. From the beginning I always thought that’s probably what Stockton would have done,” he said, adding that, in this case, the search would be even more difficult.
Sohnlein, who left OceanGate 10 years ago, said he would not have acted differently under the circumstances: “We have to learn from what’s happening, find out what happened, take those lessons and carry them forward.”
Who was aboard the Titan
The Titan began its dive on Sunday and was expected to surface seven hours later, according to the US Coast Guard.
The boat, 6.5 meters long, has cut off communications less than two hours into her journey aimed at taking a close look at the remains of the Titanic, which lies more than two miles (almost four kilometers) below the surface of the North Atlantic.
The submarine was carrying British billionaire Hamish Harding and Pakistani tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, also of British citizenship, as well as the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, and the French operator Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The passengers had paid for a $250,000 ticket.
Harding had written on his Instagram profile that, that of the Titan, was to be the only submarine mission of the year due to bad weather and adverse conditions recorded in the area where the Titanic sank.
Harding’s family protests: “Eight hours before the alarm”
The family of British billionaire Hamish Harding missing aboard the bathyscaphe Titan has attacked OceanGate Explorations, the shipping company, for waiting eight hours before raising the alarm when he disappeared.
The minisub sank Sunday at 8 a.m. US East Coast time about 10 miles southeast of St John’s near the wreck of the Titanic. By 0940 she had lost contact with her mother ship, the Polar Prince. But the disappearance was not reported to the US Coast Guard until 5.40pm.
Kathleen Cosnett, Harding’s cousin, 58, said the delay before contacting authorities was “too long”. She told the Telegraph: ‘It’s very scary. It’s taken so long to go and rescue them, it’s too long. I would have thought three hours would have been the bare minimum.’
Technical negligence
The surface search area was 20,000 square kilometers. Since the beginning of the search, information has been revealed about possible technical negligence in the dive tourism device for which OceanGate was responsible.
A 2018 complaint claims that a former company executive, David Lochridge, was fired after raising serious questions about the submarine’s safety. According to this former director of maritime operations, a porthole in the front of the device was designed to withstand pressure at a depth of 1,300 meters and not at 4,000 meters.
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