After a dayslong, massive search for a Titanic-bound submersible that captured international attention, US authorities announced the vessel had suffered a βcatastrophic implosionβ β and new information from a US Navy source helps shed light on when that disaster may have unfolded.
All five people aboard the submersible, known as the βTitan,β were killed, the US Coast Guard said in a Thursday news conference. The tail cone and other debris from the missing submersible were found by a remotely operated vehicle about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, which rests about 13,000 feet deep in the North Atlantic Ocean.
βThe debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,β US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, told reporters.
