Canadian authorities have unloaded the wrecked remains of the submersible that imploded during a dive off the site of the Titanic wreck at a port. The five crew members of her died in the accident
This Wednesday, June 28, the Pelagic Research Service, the New York company that owns the remote-controlled vehicle Odysseus used in the search for the wrecked submersible, reported the discovery of the remains of the Titan ship that recently imploded in the ocean. Atlantic.
“We have finished our offshore (activities) and we are basically demobilizing now and returning the equipment to their loved ones…” company spokesman Jeff Mahoney told AFP. He added that the search for and recovery of the remains had been “an extremely risky operation.”
The tragedy of the Titan, a submarine belonging to the OceanGate tourism company and which was dedicated to exploring the remains of the Titanic -a ship that sank in 1912-, mourned Canada, since the authorities of that nation assure that it is one of the saddest episodes in the history of that country.
“It was extremely demanding and exhausting for the team that was working day and night with almost no sleep all this time, for 10 days of work. It was a very solemn process,” he stressed. Canadian officials declined to comment on the recovered wreckage of the submersible.
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Titan was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said last Thursday that all five people on board were dead after the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion.
A debris field was found on the seabed 1,600 feet (about 500 meters) from the bow of the wreckage of the British ocean liner Titanic, which crashed and sank in 1912, lying nearly four kilometers below the ocean’s surface. and 650 kilometers from the coast of the province of Newfoundland, in Canada.
Both US and Canadian authorities opened investigations to determine the cause of the event.
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