Name: Missing Titan sub imploded in ‘catastrophic loss’
Uploaded: 2023-06-22T19:58:07.027Z
Duration: 4 min 5 s
Description: The Titan submersible with five men on board suffered a “catastrophic loss” consistent with the implosion of the vessel, the U.S Coast Guard has said. A remote-controlled robot (ROV) found the debris off the bow of the Titanic, the century-old shipwreck that was the intended destination of the expedition.

The Titan submersible with five men on board suffered a “catastrophic loss” consistent with the implosion of the vessel, the U.S Coast Guard has said. A remote-controlled robot (ROV) found the debris off the bow of the Titanic, the century-old shipwreck that was the intended destination of the expedition.

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Missing Titan sub imploded in ‘catastrophic loss’

Yeah, that's right. You just heard it there live. The Coast Guard confirming that there was a catastrophic failure in the Titan submersible and that it essentially imploded, obviously killing all five people on board immediately given the depths that this took place. Coast Guard also saying that the debris field was about 400 meters off the bow of the Titanic wreckage to give you some sort of idea where this debris field was at. They said they will continue to search in the area, the depths of the sea, trying to gather any pieces of the debris to presumably bring up to the surface to begin some sort of investigation. But it's clear that after, since Sunday, so pushing almost five days now of searching for this submersible, they have found it. And sort of the worst case fears, if you will, coming true that there was that catastrophic failure and that all people on board were killed and killed immediately. In terms of the grim task of any sort of remains, no indication of that given the depth down there and the very difficult environment down more than three kilometers from the surface of the ocean. But there's also all sorts of questions now about how, why, when. And the Coast Guard, as you heard there, saying we have some of the same questions that we are going to start asking ourselves in the coming days and weeks in terms of certification of experimental devices or experimental submersibles such as this, training, all sorts of things now are going to be, questions now are going to be asked and need to be answered in the coming days and weeks. And Gabe, as they pointed out, it was an international rescue operation with equipment brought from all sorts of places. And one of the elements during the last few days was, were those noises that were heard and that perhaps gave people a sense of hope. Tell us more about how that played out. Yeah, there was questions about those noises that were apparently heard. And we asked them about that. And it's clear that those noises probably did not have anything to do with this catastrophic event, because he said, if this would have happened, they've had sonars down there for over 72 hours picking up noises. So he said, if this implosion occurred in the last few days, they would have heard it from the sonars, sonar devices. So clearly this, the insinuation is that this happened on Sunday when the, when the immersible went down to, to, to go explore the Titanic and that these noises that we heard over the last couple of days probably were not from that catastrophic event because they would have heard it much louder than what the noises they heard. So listen, there's going to be a lot of questions moving forward. Also questions about how long it took to get these underwater devices, these unmanned underwater devices that could get down to the depths of the Titanic. They just arrived this morning. Why did it take so long? Well, they came from far away. One came from France. Another one came from another part of Canada. Again, this is over 1300 kilometers off the coast of Boston, nearly, nearly 600 kilometers off the coast of, of Canada. So this is incredibly remote area, but there's going to be questions of, you know, could they have gotten something there sooner? But the bottom line is if there was a catastrophic implosion that happened on Sunday, nothing could have saved the people that were on that vessel.

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