Finally, the great mystery behind the disappearance of the American submarine Titan was revealed The story that occupied the world during the past days

 

 

Finally, the great mystery behind the disappearance of the American submarine Titan was revealed

The story that occupied the world during the past days

When the truth is absent, analyses, speculations, and hypotheses multiply, and investigations begin. This is what happened after the disappearance of the American submarine Titan on an expedition to search for its absent sister, the Titanic, which sank on its first voyage in 1912, causing the drowning of more than 1,500 people.

The Titan, operated by the US-based company Oceangate, set off on a two-hour cruise on Sunday morning but lost contact with the support vessel about an hour and 45 minutes later.

Coast Guard officials announced the discovery of five large fragments of its 6.7-meter-long wreckage in the debris field, including the tail cone and two sections of the submarine's hull.

US Coast Guard Admiral John Mauger told reporters that a robotic deep-diving vehicle dispatched from a Canadian ship discovered a "debris field" from the submarine Titan on the ocean floor about 488 meters from the bow of the Titanic, four kilometers from the water's surface, in A remote corner of the North Atlantic Ocean.

"The debris field here is consistent with a catastrophic implosion," Mauger said.

Even before the Coast Guard press conference, Oceangate issued a statement saying that there were no survivors among the five men aboard Titan, including the company's founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who commanded the submarine.

The other four are the billionaire and British explorer Hamish Harding, 58, the businessman of Pakistani origin, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleiman, 19, both British citizens, and the French explorer and oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargolet, 77, who visited the wreck of the Titanic. dozens of times.

"These men were true explorers who share a distinctive spirit of adventure, and a burning passion for exploring and protecting the world's oceans," the company said.

Each person who went on this death cruise paid $250,000

In an adventure motivated by curiosity and exploration, despite prior knowledge of the defects in this submarine, which some consider being a semi-submarine. Questions about the safety of the Titan submarine were raised in 2018 during a symposium for submarine industry experts and in a lawsuit filed by the former head of naval operations at Ocean Gate, and it was settled at a time later that year.

And about the exact time when the submarine Titan met its fate, Mauger indicated that it was too early to determine that.

But the location of the debris field relatively close to the Titanic and the timing of the last contact with the submarine appeared to indicate the disaster occurred near the end of the landing voyage on Sunday.

Mauger added that automated vehicles on the ocean floor would continue to collect evidence, but it was not clear whether it would be possible to recover the remains of the victims given the nature of the accident and the harsh conditions at such depths.

The search was marred by desperation last Thursday, with the submarine expected to run out of oxygen, which is sufficient for 96 hours, assuming that it was still intact.

The cost of the exploratory tour to the Titanic wreck, organized by Ocean Gate since 2021, is $ 250,000 per person, according to the company's website.