Titan sub implosion: Coast Guard says it has recovered remaining debris from submersible wreck

October 11, 2023 02:51 PM

The United States Coast Guard says it has recovered the remaining debris from the site of the Titan submersible that imploded four months ago while visiting the site of the RMS Titanic shipwreck.

The final pieces of “debris and evidence” from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean were recovered by marine safety engineers along with the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation on Oct. 4, according to the Coast Guard. Among the debris were “presumed human remains” from the site of the ill-fated submersible.”

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“The recovered evidence was successfully transferred to a U.S. port for cataloging and analysis. Additional presumed human remains were carefully recovered from within Titan’s debris and transported for analysis by U.S. medical professionals,” the Coast Guard said in a statement on Tuesday.

Titan Tourist Sub — In this photo provided by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, U.S. Coast Guard marine safety engineers assigned to the Marine Safety Center in Washington D.C., working for the Marine Board of Investigation for the Titan submersible case, conduct a survey of the aft titanium endcap from the Titan submersible, in the North Atlantic Ocean, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The endcap was recently recovered from the seafloor and successfully transferred to a U.S. port for analysis. (U.S. National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

The Coast Guard also said it would be scheduling an evidence review session with the National Transportation Safety Board and “other international investigative agencies” to figure out “next steps for necessary forensic testing.”

The submersible went missing shortly after leaving for a voyage to visit the shipwreck of the Titanic on June 18, with five people on board. The Coast Guard later announced on June 22 that the OceanGate vessel had suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing all on board. The implosion is believed to have occurred 13,000 feet underwater.

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The five people on the submersible were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, and Paul Henry Nargeolet.

OceanGate announced it would be suspending commercial operations and exploration missions shortly after the implosion of the vessel. Months after the incident the U.S. government filed a lawsuit seeking to block an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck site from occurring in 2024, but the suit dealt more with international law rather than the aftermath of the Titan disaster.