Died 487 meters from the wreck of the Titanic
US Coast Guard spokesman Rear Admiral Joe Mauger confirmed that the Titan submarine crew had died. reported on the Sky News website.
“Following consultations with joint command experts, the wreckage corresponded to parts of the submersible chamber. On behalf of Mauger, the US Coast Guard, and the entire joint command, my deepest condolences to the families of the[deceased],” he said.
According to him, the crew members were declared dead due to the explosion of the submarine. In other words, due to the pressure of the water, 487m from the wreckage of the Titanic, the tub filled with people literally jammed like a jar. This conclusion was made on the basis of the presence of the wreck of the submersible. Currently, according to conservation, it is impossible to predict whether it will be possible to find the remains of the dead, as the environment at the bottom of the ocean is quite “harsh”.
As a senior lecturer at the Department of Oceanology at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, MV Lomonosov Sergei Mukhametov, found fragments of the Titan bath, it shows that the apparatus “collapsed” and the crew died instantly, most likely last Sunday, June 18.
five wrecks
In total, the experts found five pieces of the bath tub. According to Mauger, the remote-controlled vehicle found the submersible’s tail cone about 200 meters from the Titanic’s bow. In addition, the wreckage was found 500 meters from the Titanic. Included were the landing frame and the back cover of the submersible.
“Without the skin and frame, something very bad has happened to the whole structure. According to the information we have, they couldn’t find the human building,” said search and rescue expert David Mearns.
The main body of the apparatus has not yet been found. As Mauger, who led the search for the bathtub, emphasized that finding traces of passengers on the seabed is a difficult task. At this time, the remote control apparatus continues to search.
A lot of people died
Some time before Mauger’s statement on June 22, OceanGate Expeditions, the operator of the Titan submersible, which was lost in the Atlantic Ocean, said they thought all five members of the crew were dead. about that time Wrote on the CNN website.
“We believe our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his sons Suleiman Dawood, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargolet have sadly passed away. <…> The company mourns those who lost their lives and the joy they brought to everyone we know.”
The director of the movie “Titanic”, American director James Cameron, talked about the shocking similarity between the disaster of the ship that sank after colliding with an iceberg in 1912 and the tragedy of today.
“I was stunned by the resemblance to the Titanic disaster itself, the captain was repeatedly warned that there was an iceberg ahead, and yet he rushed to the ice field at full speed, resulting in the deaths of many people and a very similar tragedy. The warnings were not heeded in the exact same place,” he said.
Oxygen ended on June 22
The Bathyscaphe “Titan” disappeared from radar in the Atlantic Ocean on June 18 while en route to the crash site of the Titanic. This happened a few hours after diving.
There were five people on board: the director of Ocean Gate, the underwater operator Stockton Rush, 61, British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani-British businessman, 48-year-old Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman, as well as the pilot of the device, a former military diver. , Titanic explorer 77-year-old Frenchman Paul-Henri Narjolet.
The apparatus is being searched in an area of approximately 20 thousand square meters. km, they attracted experts from several countries. On June 21, CNN reported that rescuers heard “acoustic feedback”: a thumping-like sound that resonated every 30 minutes for at least four hours. By the afternoon of June 22, the supply of oxygen in the bath tub ceased, according to calculations by the US Coast Guard.