Missing Submarine: All occupants are dead, according to OceanGate
And the company that operates “Titan” announced Thursday that it has no hope of finding the five survivors who have been missing since last Sunday in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All five Titan passengers are likely dead.
According to the US Coast Guard, the wreckage found Thursday near the wreck of the Titanic came from the submarine that has been searched for since Sunday. But according to investigators, it’s still too early to know exactly when the catastrophic implosion occurred.
The Titan has been missing since Sunday, eight hours after losing contact with its surface ship.
Hopes were dwindling hour by hour, especially since the submarine had only a 96-hour oxygen reserve, a reserve that was due to be depleted by midday Thursday.
At this point, no one knows yet if the potential submarine implosion occurred on Sunday or in the following days.
It is only certain that the Titanic wrecking field was located about 488 meters from the Titanic.
A few hours after the discovery was announced “debris field” Near the wreck of the Titanic by a robot involved in international research, OceanGate posted this press release:
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, his son Solomon Daoud, Hamish Harding and Paul Henry Nargolet are sadly gone.”
“These men were true explorers who shared a spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans”OceanGate continued.
“Our thoughts are with these five souls and each member of their family at this tragic time.”The company added that it was grateful for all the efforts made to find the submarine.
This Thursday, and French oceanographic vessel Atalante It arrived in the area to support deep sea research with its Vector 6000 underwater robot capable of diving to a depth of 6,000 metres.
The question now is whether the wreckage of the submarine can be brought to the surface along with the bodies of the victims.
A Frenchman is among the victims
Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargolet, 77, who died with the submarine’s crew, was a former diver turned deep-sea diver with a passion for marine archeology.
Originally from Haute-Savoie, this seabed explorer spent the first part of his career as a naval officer.
Commander of a divers mopping group in Cherbourg (Manche, northwest France), then became a submarine pilot in the Undersea Intervention Group, part of the French Navy.
He then majored in marine archaeology, with the excavation of numerous shipwrecks, within the Association of Maritime Archeology Research Group.
The real turning point in his career came in 1986 when he became in charge of the deep intervention submarines of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer). A year ago, a team led by American scientist Robert Ballard, in collaboration with Ephraimer, found the wreckage of the Titanic.
Back in 1987, Paul-Henri Nargoulet saw wreckage aboard the French submarine Nautilus. This was followed, over the years, by dozens of dives which made it particularly possible to recover several hundred objects.
The latest dates back to the summer of 2021, Submariner says in a lengthy interview published on the website of La Cité de la Mer, a museum in Cherbourg.
“During the last dive on the bow of the Titanic, without any very rare current, we were able for the first time to observe parts of the wreckage from a different angle, which made it particularly interesting.”He said.
In 2007 Paul-Henri Nargoulet became director of the research program for the RMS Titanic/Phoenix International company that owns the wreck.
And his activity was not limited to the study of the ship, by participating in several search campaigns for missing ships, and even that, in 2010, of the Airbus A330-203 that disappeared during the Rio Paris flight.
Four other passengers are on board
In addition to Paul-Henri Nargolet, the OceanGate president, American, was on board Stockton Rushwealthy British businessman, Hamish Harding (58) A Pakistani businessman Shahzada Daoud (48 years old) and his son Suleiman (19 years old), British national.
to 230 thousand eurosThe four passengers set out to explore the remains of what was one of the greatest maritime disasters of the twentieth century.
Titanic It crashed on its maiden voyage in 1912, after hitting an iceberg, killing nearly 1,500 passengers and crew.
since The discovery of the wreck in 1985, It is visited by scientists, treasure hunters and tourists, thus preserving the legend.
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