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Stockton Rush
OceanGate confirmed June 20 that its CEO Stockton Rush was aboard the submersible as a member of the crew.
Today is one of those days, that science and history teachers are so glad to be out of class. Because to have to explain to their students about a deadly implosion is too much. Not to mention how it all started in the first place.
There are so many questions and pieces missing from my mind, and for the life of me, all I can focus on is why? Why did they get into the compact OceanGate Titan Submersible, to go down 12,000 feet, to study damaged history?
They sat on a cold floor, no shoes on, crossed legs with one toilet and limited oxygen. Now, 5 people are dead!
Tragically, this is so sad and very shocking as the world try to come to grip with all of the passengers being killed. I am not a scientist, but why didn’t they just use a robotic probe with cameras to submerge down into the sea.
Here are clips of the full timeline.
New York Times: Death is suspected
Pieces of the missing Titan vessel were found on the ocean floor, about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, the Coast Guard said. OceanGate Expeditions, the vessel’s operator, said, “Our hearts are with these five souls.”
The five people aboard the submersible that went missing on Sunday were presumed dead on Thursday, after an international search that gripped much of the world found debris from the vessel near the wreckage of the Titanic. A U.S. Coast Guard official said the debris was “consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.”
On Sunday, a secret U.S. network of acoustic sensors picked up indications of a possible implosion in the vicinity of the submersible around the time communications with it were lost, a senior Navy official disclosed on Thursday. The search continued because there was no immediate confirmation that the Titan had met a disastrous end, according to a second senior Navy official. Both officials spoke anonymously to discuss operational details.
The US Navy
The U.S. Navy, using data from a secret network of underwater sensors designed to track hostile submarines, detected “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” in the vicinity of the Titan submersible at the time communications with the vessel were lost on Sunday, two senior Navy officials said on Thursday.
But with no other indications of a catastrophe, one of the officials said, the search was continued. Both officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details, said that the analysis of undersea acoustic data and information about the location of the noise had been shared with the Coast Guard official in charge of the search.
On Sunday is when it all started
The Titan submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic on Sunday appeared to have suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, and offered its condolences to the families of the five people who were on board.
Debris from the vessel, which vanished while descending to view the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic, was found on the ocean floor on Thursday morning, about 1,600 feet from the bow of the shipwreck, Rear Admiral John Mauger of the Coast Guard said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon.
Rest in Peace:
The five people on board included the chief executive of the company that operated the submersible, a Guinness World Record-holding explorer, a man who dived to the Titanic more than 35 times, and a father-and-son duo. Read more about the lives that were lost here.
My condolences and prayers truly goes out to the family. This is so shocking to me, I will never get of this fear of being down in that water.
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